Evening Doug! > The major addition is support for host-managed ZBC devices. The bulk > of the work in this area was done by Damien Le Moal. It allows ZBC > devices with a mix of conventional and "sequential write required" > zones to be specified. [...] > The lower numbered patches in this set contain various measures to > improve the speed and usefulness of this driver. It is being used to > test the rewrite of the SCSI generic (sg) driver which is still > underway. These really should be separate series. One for the ZBC stuff (which generally looks OK), one for the backing store enablement, and maybe one for the general improvements that do not have other dependencies. It's much more manageable for reviewers when things come in smaller batches. Once a posted series has been merged, you can rebase your working tree and submit the next batch of 5-10 patches. Thanks! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
