linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] scsi: ufs: Add ufs provisioning support

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Message-ID: <20180614153914.GA3906@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 08:39:14 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Sayali Lokhande <sayalil@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     subhashj@...eaurora.org, cang@...eaurora.org,
        vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org, rnayak@...eaurora.org,
        vinholikatti@...il.com, jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, asutoshd@...eaurora.org,
        evgreen@...omium.org, riteshh@...eaurora.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] scsi: ufs: Add ufs provisioning support

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 06:33:51PM +0530, Sayali Lokhande wrote:
> A new api ufshcd_do_config_device() is added in driver
> to support UFS provisioning at runtime. Configfs support
> is added to trigger provisioning.
> Device and Unit configurable parameters are parsed from
> vendor specific provisioning data or file and
> passed via configfs node at runtime to provision ufs device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sayali Lokhande <sayalil@...eaurora.org>

Please make that code conditionally compiled based on a config option.
For most UFS users there is no need to ever enable it.