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From: Scott Bauer <sbauer@plzdonthack.me>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Kozub <zub@linux.fjfi.cvut.cz>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Jonathan Derrick <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jonas Rabenstein <jonas.rabenstein@studium.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] block: sed-opal: support shadow MBR done flag and write
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 10:36:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204153138.GA6512@hacktheplanet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204150415.GO31132@infradead.org>

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:04:15AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:50:07PM +0100, David Kozub wrote:
> > This patch series extends SED OPAL support: it adds IOCTL for setting the shadow
> > MBR done flag which can be useful for unlocking an OPAL disk on boot and it adds
> > IOCTL for writing to the shadow MBR. Also included are some minor fixes and
> > improvements.
> 
> Actually most of it is really useful cleanups and small fixes for the
> existing OPAL code.  Any chance you could resend just those bits as
> a first series ASAP?  I'll try to spend some time to to review the
> actual feature additions in the meantime.
> 
> > There is a fork of sed-opal-temp that can use these new IOCTLs.[2] I tested
> > these on Samsung 840 EVO and 850 EVO drives, on x86-64 and arm64 systems.
> 
> Which brings up another question:  how do we get a properly maintained
> version of the sed-opal tool up ASAP?  It's been a bit bitrotting
> unfortunately, and the documentation and error handling hasn't been all
> that great to start with.  Are we going to find a good home for it?
> Util-linux for example?

I would also like to get it off my github and into a proper location as well.

Christoph, do you know off hand how we would get it in util-linux?


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-01 20:50 [PATCH v4 00/16] block: sed-opal: support shadow MBR done flag and write David Kozub
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 01/16] block: sed-opal: fix typos and formatting David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 20:28     ` David Kozub
2019-02-08 22:56       ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 02/16] block: sed-opal: use correct macro for method length David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:56   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 03/16] block: sed-opal: unify space check in add_token_* David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 21:07     ` David Kozub
2019-02-04 21:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:57       ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 04/16] block: sed-opal: close parameter list in cmd_finalize David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:57   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 05/16] block: sed-opal: unify cmd start David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:57   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 06/16] block: sed-opal: unify error handling of responses David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 07/16] block: sed-opal: reuse response_get_token to decrease code duplication David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:57   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 08/16] block: sed-opal: print failed function address David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 09/16] block: sed-opal: split generation of bytestring header and content David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:58   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 10/16] block: sed-opal: add ioctl for done-mark of shadow mbr David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-07 22:56     ` David Kozub
2019-02-08  0:44       ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-08  1:37         ` Scott Bauer
2019-02-10 18:26         ` Scott Bauer
2019-02-10 20:25           ` David Kozub
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 11/16] block: sed-opal: ioctl for writing to " David Kozub
2019-02-04 17:58   ` kbuild test robot
2019-02-08 22:58   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 12/16] block: sed-opal: unify retrieval of table columns David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:58   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 13/16] block: sed-opal: check size of shadow mbr David Kozub
2019-02-08 22:58   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-10 20:05     ` David Kozub
2019-02-11 21:27       ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 14/16] block: sed-opal: pass steps via argument rather than via opal_dev David Kozub
2019-02-04 14:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 15/16] block: sed-opal: don't repeat opal_discovery0 in each steps array David Kozub
2019-02-04 15:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 22:44     ` David Kozub
2019-02-08 22:59       ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-10 17:46         ` David Kozub
2019-02-11 17:22           ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-01 20:50 ` [PATCH v4 16/16] block: sed-opal: rename next to execute_steps David Kozub
2019-02-04 15:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 22:59   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2019-02-04  8:55 ` David Kozub
2019-02-04  9:44 ` [PATCH v4 00/16] block: sed-opal: support shadow MBR done flag and write David Kozub
2019-02-04 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 15:36   ` Scott Bauer [this message]
2019-02-04 15:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 23:06   ` David Kozub
2019-02-05  6:57     ` Christoph Hellwig

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