Hi all, here is now my alternative approach on how the SCSI result could be cleaned up. It's based on the observation that two fields (namely driver_byte and message_byte) are essentially unused. The driver byte really is an unloved thing, with very few drivers using it, and not really consistent, either. It's only DRIVER_SENSE which has a meaning for userspace, and that just indicates if a sense code is present; as such it can easily inferred by looking at the sense code itself. The message byte is a different story, as it's being used internally by some SCSI parallel drivers. But even here, in the end the message byte is only ever relevant for SCSI EH, and that just checks if any message byte is set apart from COMMAND_COMPLETE. And we have the SCp.Message field, which can be used to hold the message values for drivers which had been using the message byte in the SCSI result. So with this approach we can stop using the driver_byte and the message_byte values in the SCSI result, which means we only have two values (host byte and status byte) left to deal with. My plan here is move every driver to use accessors for the remaining bytes in the SCSI result, and with that move the SCSI result over into two separate values. A patchset implementing this can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/hare/scsi-devel.git scsi-result-rework This patchset is the first part of that, and is intentionally posted as an RFC as it directly competes with Barts patchset. As usual, comments and reviews are welcome. Hannes Reinecke (42): st: return error code in st_scsi_execute() scsi_ioctl: return error code when blk_rq_map_kern() fails scsi_dh_alua: do not interpret DRIVER_ERROR scsi: Fixup calling convention for scsi_mode_sense() scsi: stop using DRIVER_ERROR scsi: introduce scsi_build_sense() scsi: Kill DRIVER_SENSE scsi: do not use DRIVER_INVALID scsi_error: use DID_TIME_OUT instead of DRIVER_TIMEOUT xen-scsiback: use DID_ERROR instead of DRIVER_ERROR xen-scsifront: compability status handling scsi: Drop the now obsolete driver_byte definitions scsi: add get_{status,host}_byte() accessor function scsi: add scsi_result_is_good() NCR5380: use SCSI result accessors NCR5380: Fold SCSI message ABORT onto DID_ABORT scsi: add translate_msg_byte() dc395: use standard macros to set SCSI result dc395: translate message bytes qlogicfas408: make ql_pcmd() a void function qlogicfas408: whitespace cleanup qlogicfas408: translate message to host byte status nsp32: use standard macros to set SCSI result nsp32: whitespace cleanup nsp32: do not set message byte wd33c93: use standard macros to set SCSI result wd33c93: translate message byte to host byte mesh: use standard macros to set SCSI result mesh: translate message to host byte status acornscsi: use standard macros to set SCSI result acornscsi: remove acornscsi_reportstatus() acornscsi: translate message byte to host byte aha152x: modify done() to use separate status bytes aha152x: do not set message byte when calling scsi_done() advansys: do not set message byte in SCSI status advansys: use SCSI result accessors fas216: translate message to host byte status fas216: convert to SCSI Accessors fdomain: drop last argument to fdomain_finish_cmd() fdomain: translate message to host byte status scsi: drop message byte helper scsi: kill message byte Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.rst | 7 +- block/bsg-lib.c | 2 +- block/bsg.c | 2 +- block/scsi_ioctl.c | 11 +- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 28 +- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_scsi.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c | 31 +- drivers/scsi/advansys.c | 11 +- drivers/scsi/aha152x.c | 33 +- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c | 19 +- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c | 1 - drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 1 - drivers/scsi/arm/acornscsi.c | 41 +- drivers/scsi/arm/fas216.c | 24 +- drivers/scsi/ch.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/constants.c | 15 - drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/dc395x.c | 76 ++-- drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c | 4 - drivers/scsi/esp_scsi.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/fdomain.c | 22 +- drivers/scsi/hptiop.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c | 54 +-- drivers/scsi/megaraid.c | 18 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c | 22 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 2 - drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 1 - drivers/scsi/mesh.c | 14 +- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 14 +- drivers/scsi/mvumi.c | 10 +- drivers/scsi/myrb.c | 64 +--- drivers/scsi/myrs.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/nsp32.c | 397 +++++++++++--------- drivers/scsi/ps3rom.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 15 +- drivers/scsi/qlogicfas408.c | 137 ++++--- drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 15 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 22 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 48 ++- drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.c | 10 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 64 ++-- drivers/scsi/sd_zbc.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 11 +- drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/sr.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/st.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/stex.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 6 - drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c | 48 +-- drivers/scsi/xen-scsifront.c | 9 +- drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c | 1 - drivers/usb/storage/cypress_atacb.c | 4 +- drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 16 +- include/scsi/scsi.h | 22 +- include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h | 33 +- include/scsi/sg.h | 4 + include/trace/events/scsi.h | 48 +-- 68 files changed, 706 insertions(+), 852 deletions(-) -- 2.29.2