On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 03:03:18PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > So are you arguing that an oops that you had a hand in generating *** > should not fixed, and should be used as a further reason to remove bidi > completely from the kernel? Bebugging? It is not the reason, but the final nail in the coffin. As you might have noticed we've been trying to get rid of it for a while. > If the NVMe stack does bidi (and quad-di) using a different technique, > couldn't the SCSI stack's bidi implementation (which is pretty ugly but is > less ugly after this patchset) be changed to do bidi the same way as NVMe? NVMe does not do BIDI at all, and I'll use all my (little) klout in the committee to avoid having bidi support in NVMe.
