linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] block: Create scsi

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Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 17:06:02 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Manoj N. Kumar" <manoj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Matthew R. Ochs" <mrochs@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] block: Create scsi_sense.h for SCSI and ATAPI


Kees,

> obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI)              += scsi/
>
> So: this needs to live in block/ just like CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST's
> scsi_ioctl.c. I will split it into CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_SENSE, but I'll
> still need to move the code from drivers/scsi/ to block/. Is this
> okay?

The reason this sucks is that scsi_normalize_sense() is an inherent core
feature in the SCSI layer. Dealing with sense data for ioctls is just a
fringe use case.

I don't want to get too hung up on what goes where. But architecturally
it really irks me to move a core piece of SCSI state machine
functionality out of the subsystem to accommodate ioctl handling.

I'm traveling today so I probably won't get a chance to look closely
until tomorrow morning.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering