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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>,
	Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>,
	linux-mmc Mailing List <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/5] block: Add secure discard
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:18:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2C6B7D.60905@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100630150947.d53200ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:44:23 +0300
> Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> wrote:
> 
>> >From b25b9a499f255ee5999c219525d82ef40382318c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:41:38 +0300
>> Subject: [PATCH 4/5] block: Add secure discard
>>
>> Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies
>> of the discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection)
>> must also be erased.
> 
> That's not an awfully informative changelog.
> 
>>From a quick peek at the code it seems that you took your earlier
> design sketch:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:10:06PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> Needs a bio flag, a request flag, setup the request flag based on the
>> bio flag, prevent merging secure and non-secure discards, prevent drivers
>> doing non-secure discards for secure discards.
>>
>> Seems like a lot of little changes for something that no one wants.
>> Shouldn't it wait for someone to need it first?
> 
> and changed your mind and implemented it.
> 
> Is that a correct interpretation?
> 

Yes.  It does allude to that in "[PATCH V3 0/5] Add MMC erase and secure erase V3"
i.e.

Changes from V2

- move the addition of BLKSECDISCARD to a separate patch and implement it
using I/O requests
- move the MMC support of secure discard to a separate patch and support
the secure discard I/O request

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-01 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-24  8:43 [PATCH V3 0/5] Add MMC erase and secure erase V3 Adrian Hunter
2010-06-24  8:44 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] mmc: Add erase, secure erase, trim and secure trim operations Adrian Hunter
2010-06-30 22:21   ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-01 10:49     ` Adrian Hunter
2010-06-24  8:44 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] mmc_block: Add discard support Adrian Hunter
2010-06-24  8:44 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] omap_hsmmc: Add erase capability Adrian Hunter
2010-06-24  8:44 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] block: Add secure discard Adrian Hunter
2010-06-30 22:09   ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-01 10:18     ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2010-06-24  8:44 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] mmc_block: Add support for " Adrian Hunter

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