Re: [PATCH 52/52] scsi: Drop the now obsolete driver_byte definitions

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On 11/19/19 12:03 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 10:31 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 11/19/19 10:02 AM, Martin Wilck wrote:
>>>
>>> While I generally like this change, the driver byte is part of the
>>> sg_io user space API, and used in sg3_utils and multipath-tools (in
>>> particular, DRIVER_SENSE), and likely in other user space tools as
>>> well. Can we simply ditch it without adding some compatibility code
>>> to
>>> sg and bsg?
>>>
>> Why, but I did...
>> sg and bsg should report to userland exactly the same values as
>> before;
>> or at least that was the plan.
> 
> I am sorry, I overlooked that part in sg.c where you set DRIVER_SENSE. 
> It's the only DRIVER_xyz code that you set though. Is that sufficient? 
> 
> In bsg.c, I just see 
> 
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static int bsg_scsi_complete_rq(struct request *rq, struct sg_io_v4 *hdr)
>          */
>         hdr->device_status = sreq->result & 0xff;
>         hdr->transport_status = host_byte(sreq->result);
> -       hdr->driver_status = driver_byte(sreq->result);
> +       hdr->driver_status = 0;
>         hdr->info = 0;
>         if (hdr->device_status || hdr->transport_status || hdr->driver_status)
>                 hdr->info |= SG_INFO_CHECK;
> 	hdr->driver_status = 0;
> 
> To me that looks as if userspace might get a different result as
> before. Similar in bsg_lib.c. I may be overlooking something again, but
> not being familiar with the bsg driver, I thought I'd better ask.
> 
For bsg the driver status was never set, so while in theory any of the
DRIVER_XXX values could be returned, they were never set.
So that change is valid.

> (Nitpick: your change obsoletes the check for hdr->driver_status two
> lines below).
> 
Sure, can do.

Cheers,

Hannes
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