On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:30:50AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Can you explain why this functionality has been added to the sd driver > instead of the SCSI core ? Aren't persistent reservations a concept that > applies to all SCSI device types ? In theory it does. In practice it's only used by disks/arrays and tapes, and as tapes don't have a struct block_device this isn't going to be useful for them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html