From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
martin.petersen@oracle.com, ooo@electrozaur.com
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 08:13:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2dbeeae6-6c0d-0702-acf4-73226ccf64c4@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190201075557.9249-1-hch@lst.de>
On 2/1/19 12:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
I'm fine with killing it. You can add my:
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
to the series.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-01 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 1/8] bsg: refactor bsg_ioctl Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/8] bsg-lib: handle bidi requests without block layer help Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 3/8] fs: remove exofs Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: remove the SCSI OSD library Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: remove bidirectional command support Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] scsi: stop setting up request->special Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: remove req->special Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 8:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove bidi support Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 15:13 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-02-04 20:31 ` remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4 Boaz Harrosh
2019-02-05 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-05 3:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
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