On 2020-04-13 7:19 p.m., Martin K. Petersen wrote:
in response to the cover letter of a patchset sent: 2020-02-25, 1:23 a.m.
which is 7 weeks ago!
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.
But other things such as the "ZBC stuff" have dependencies on those
general improvements in obvious (i.e. seen by git) and subtle ways.
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.
I believe you overvalue the review process, it is mainly window
dressing, unevenly applied.
Doug Gilbert
