On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:52:19AM +0800, Tom Yan wrote: > > How is that an advantage? Applications that works with block devices > > don't really work with a magic passthrough character device. > > You must assume that there are applications already assuming that > work. (And it will, at least in some cases, if this series get > merged.) Why "must" I assume that? > And you have not been giving me a solid point anyway, as I said, it's > just queue_*() at the end of the day; regardless of whether those > would work in all sg cases, we have been using them in the sg driver > anyway. > > And it's not like we have to guarantee that (the) ioctls can work in > every case anyway, right? (Especially when they aren't named SG_*). No. While it is unfortunte we have all kinds of cases of ioctls working differnetly on different devices. > > I mean, what's even your point? How do you propose we fix this? I propose to not "fix" anything, because nothing is broken except for maybe a lack of documentation.
