On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:46:35AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >But I'm uneasy with adding anything like this for now, for one the specs > >aren't even anywhere close to done, and second attaching ZBC devices > >in general doesn't sound like a very smart idea, we really need a > >strategy for the sequential required zones first. > > > In theory, yes. > > In practice, however, ZAC drives will show up a normal ATA devices > without that patch. Which is leading to even more trouble. > So with this patch we're at least signalling to the user that > something odd might happen. So how about we drop the sd.c changes so that no ULD gets attached, and keep the rest with the review comments addressed? That way we don't accidentally attach a ZBC/ZAC disk, but do get proper diagnostics and can even use SG_IO with the experimental ZBC or ZAC commands. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
