On 12/28/23 16:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > now that support for the host aware zoned model is gone in the > for-6.8/block branch, there is no way the sd driver can find a device > where is has to clear the zoned flag, and we can thus remove the code > for it, including a block layer helper. Hmmm... There is one case: if the user uses a passthrough command to issue a FORMAT WITH PRESET command to reformat the disk from SMR to CMR or from CMR to SMR. The next revalidate will see a different device type in this case, and SMR-to-CMR reformat will need clearing the zoned stuff. > > Diffstat: > block/blk-zoned.c | 21 --------------------- > drivers/scsi/sd.c | 7 +++---- > include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 - > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) > -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research