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

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Message-ID: <yq1efi3bk3g.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 May 2018 14:50:43 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "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@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] block: Create scsi_sense.h for SCSI and ATAPI


Christoph,

> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:15:09AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Both SCSI and ATAPI share the sense header. In preparation for using the
>> struct scsi_sense_hdr more widely, move this into a separate header and
>> move the helper function to scsi_ioctl.c which is linked with CONFIG_IDE
>> by way of CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST.
>
> Please keep the code where it is and just depend on SCSI on the legacy
> ide driver.  No need to do gymnastics just for a legacy case.

Yup, I agree.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering