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Date:   Sat, 16 May 2020 10:14:14 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@....com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "alim.akhtar@...sung.com" <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        "asutoshd@...eaurora.org" <asutoshd@...eaurora.org>,
        Zang Leigang <zangleigang@...ilicon.com>,
        Avi Shchislowski <Avi.Shchislowski@....com>,
        Bean Huo <beanhuo@...ron.com>,
        "cang@...eaurora.org" <cang@...eaurora.org>,
        "stanley.chu@...iatek.com" <stanley.chu@...iatek.com>,
        MOHAMMED RAFIQ KAMAL BASHA <md.rafiq@...sung.com>,
        Sang-yoon Oh <sangyoon.oh@...sung.com>,
        yongmyung lee <ymhungry.lee@...sung.com>,
        Jinyoung CHOI <j-young.choi@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] scsi: ufs: Add HPB Support

On 2020-05-16 02:14, Avri Altman wrote:
>> Thank you for having taken the time to publish your work. The way this
>> series has been split into individual patches makes reviewing easy.
>> Additionally, the cover letter and patch descriptions are very
>> informative, insightful and well written. However, I'm concerned about a
>> key aspect of the implementation, namely relying on a device handler to
>> alter the meaning of a block layer request. My concern about this
>> approach is that at most one device handler can be associated with a
>> SCSI LLD. If in the future more functionality would be added to the UFS
>> spec and if it would be desirable to implement that functionality as a
>> new kernel module, it won't be possible to implement that functionality
>> as a new device handler. So I think that not relying on the device
>> handler infrastructure is more future proof because that removes the
>> restrictions we have to deal with when using the device handler framework.
>
> So should we keep perusing this direction, or leave it, and concentrate in Bean's RFC?
> Or maybe come up with a 3rd way?

Hi Avri,

I prefer to proceed with reviewing Bean's patch series. If someone
prefers a different approach, I think this is a good time to bring that up.

Thanks,

Bart.

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