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* remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3
@ 2018-11-11 13:32 Christoph Hellwig
  2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] fs: remove exofs Christoph Hellwig
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  0 siblings, 10 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2018-11-11 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: axboe, martin.petersen, ooo
  Cc: Johannes Thumshirn, Benjamin Block, linux-scsi, linux-block,
	linux-kernel

The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
removed it 1.5 years ago.  Exofs is just a simple example without
real life users.

The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it.

Quote from Boaz:

"As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments.
Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports.

But yes feel free to remove the all thing!!

I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree.

Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys
been doing this for me ;-)"

Now the last time this caused a bit of a stir, but still no actual users,
not even for SG_IO passthrough commands.  So here we go again, this time
including removing everything in the scsi and block layer supporting it,
and thus shrinking struct request.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 24+ messages in thread
* remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4
@ 2019-02-01  7:55 Christoph Hellwig
  2019-02-01  7:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove bidi support Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 24+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2019-02-01  7:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: axboe, martin.petersen, ooo
  Cc: Johannes Thumshirn, Benjamin Block, linux-scsi, linux-block,
	linux-kernel

The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
removed it 1.5 years ago.  Exofs is just a simple example without
real life users.

The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
way of block / SCSI changes, and does not even work properly currently,
so I think it's finally time to drop it.

Quote from Boaz:

"As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments.
Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports.

But yes feel free to remove the all thing!!

I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree.

Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys
been doing this for me ;-)"

Now the last time this caused a bit of a stir, but still no actual users,
not even for SG_IO passthrough commands.  So here we go again, this time
including removing everything in the scsi and block layer supporting it,
and thus shrinking struct request.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 24+ messages in thread

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2018-11-11 13:32 remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3 Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] fs: remove exofs Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 2/8] scsi: remove the SCSI OSD library Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 3/8] scsi: remove bidirectional command support Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: stop setting up request->special Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 5/8] bsg: refactor bsg_ioctl Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-13 14:05   ` Benjamin Block
2018-11-19 12:29     ` Avri Altman
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] bsg-lib: handle bidi requests without block layer help Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-13 14:35   ` Benjamin Block
2018-11-14 15:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-14 16:44       ` Benjamin Block
2018-11-19 12:31   ` Avri Altman
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: remove req->special Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove bidi support Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 16:35 ` remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3 Douglas Gilbert
2018-11-26 17:11 ` Boaz Harrosh
2018-12-19 14:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-20  2:01     ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-12-20  7:26       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-23 12:57         ` Boaz Harrosh
2018-12-20 16:08       ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-12-23 12:17     ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-02-01  7:55 remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4 Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01  7:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove bidi support Christoph Hellwig

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