Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI support

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 05:37:19PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Since the need for a special flag to support SCSI passthrough on a
> block device was added in May 2017 the SCSI passthrough support in
> virtio-blk has been disabled.  It has always been a bad idea
> (just ask the original author..) and we have virtio-scsi for proper
> passthrough.  The feature also never made it into the virtio 1.0
> or later specifications.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/configs/guest.config |   1 -
>  drivers/block/Kconfig             |  10 ---
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c        | 115 +-----------------------------
>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 125 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>

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