From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] block: add a ->get_unique_id method
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:31:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <437deafa-e0b9-8a84-1f2f-381b1c9865b8@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211012120445.861860-2-hch@lst.de>
On 10/12/21 2:04 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a method to query query uniqueue IDs from block devices. It will be
Maybe engage a spell checker here ...
> used to remove code that deeply pokes into SCSI internals in the NFS
> server. The implementation in the sd driver itself can also be much
> nicer as it can use the cached VPD page instead of always sending a
> command as the current NFS code does.
>
> For now the interface is kept very minimal but could be easily
> extended when other users like a block-layer sysfs interface for
> uniquue IDs shows up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> index 17705c970d7e1..81f94a7c54521 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> @@ -1188,6 +1188,7 @@ struct block_device_operations {
> int (*report_zones)(struct gendisk *, sector_t sector,
> unsigned int nr_zones, report_zones_cb cb, void *data);
> char *(*devnode)(struct gendisk *disk, umode_t *mode);
> + int (*get_unique_id)(struct gendisk *disk, u8 id[16], u8 id_type);
> struct module *owner;
> const struct pr_ops *pr_ops;
>
>
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-14 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-12 12:04 remove QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 1/7] block: add a ->get_unique_id method Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-12 17:03 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-10-14 7:31 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 2/7] sd: implement ->get_unique_id Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-12 13:13 ` Keith Busch
2021-10-14 7:30 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-10-14 8:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-14 8:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 3/7] nfsd/blocklayout: use ->get_unique_id instead of sending SCSI commands Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-12 13:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-10-14 7:32 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 4/7] bsg-lib: initialize the bsg_job in bsg_transport_sg_io_fn Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-14 7:33 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 5/7] scsi: add a scsi_alloc_request helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-14 7:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 6/7] block: remove the initialize_rq_fn blk_mq_ops method Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-14 7:38 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-10-12 12:04 ` [PATCH 7/7] block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-14 7:38 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-10-19 7:54 remove QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-19 7:54 ` [PATCH 1/7] block: add a ->get_unique_id method Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-20 3:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-10-21 6:06 remove QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH v3 Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-21 6:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] block: add a ->get_unique_id method Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-21 13:34 ` Hannes Reinecke
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