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Message-ID: <x49wpnl4h6x.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:33:10 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Swann <tswann@...c-inc.com>,
	Ramprasad Chinthekindi <rchinthekindi@...c-inc.com>,
	Akhil Bhansali <abhansali@...c-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] skd: disable broken discard support

Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> writes:

> On 04/25/2016 01:19 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Simply creating a file system on an skd device, followed by mount and
>> fstrim will result in errors in the logs, and even a BUG().  Let's
>> disable it.  As far as I can tell, it hasn't worked right since it was
>> merged.  Note that I've only disabled the reporting here, I haven't
>> removed the implementation bits in the code.  Jens, let me know if you
>> want me to yank it out completely.
>
> I agree with yanking it, but let's remove all the support bits as well
> so we don't have dead code around. If someone wants to resurrect it,
> it's all there in the git history anyway.

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Jeff

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