linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] sd: Ignore sync cache failures when not supported

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Message-ID: <yq1mvamssiq.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 08 May 2017 21:55:41 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sd: Ignore sync cache failures when not supported


Christoph,

> Normally we'd just pass the scsi_sense_hdr structure in from the caler
> if we care about sense data.  Is this something you considered?
>
> Otherwise this looks fine to me.

I agree with Christoph that passing the sense header would be more
consistent with the rest of the SCSI code. Even if we only need the key
in this case.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering