linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

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Message-ID: <20200820080312.oxsnsedn6rqf3rcx@mpHalley.local>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:03:12 +0200
From:   Javier Gonzalez <javier@...igon.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, david.fugate@...ux.intel.com,
        Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@...sung.com>,
        "kbusch@...nel.org" <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        "Damien.LeMoal@....com" <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        "sagi@...mberg.me" <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        "linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "johannes.thumshirn@....com" <johannes.thumshirn@....com>,
        Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@...sung.com>,
        SelvaKumar S <selvakuma.s1@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

On 20.08.2020 08:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:37:19AM +0200, Javier Gonzalez wrote:
>> We will stop pushing for this emulation. We have a couple of SSDs where
>> we disabled Append, we implemented support for them, and we wanted to
>> push the changes upstream. That's it. This is no politics not a
>> conspiracy against the current ZNS spec. We spent a lot of time working
>> on this spec and are actually doing a fair amount of work to support
>> Append other places in the stack. In any case, the fuzz stops here.
>
>FYI, from knowing your personally I'm pretty confident you are not
>part of a conspiracy and you are just doing your best given the context,
>and I appreciate all your work!

Thanks Christoph.

>
>I'm a lot less happy about thinks that happen in other groups not
>involving you directly, and I'm still pretty mad at how the games were
>played there, and especially other actors the seem to be reading the
>list here, and instead of taking part in the discussion are causing fuzz
>in completely unrelated venues.

Yes. Hopefully, we will start keeping things separated and using this
list for Linux, technical conversations only.