linux-kernel - Re: remove support for the host aware zoned model

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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:16:46 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Damien Le Moal
 <dlemoal@...nel.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: remove support for the host aware zoned model


Christoph,

> Fortunately only a few HDD prototypes shipped using this model which
> never made it to mass production. Drop the support before it is too
> late. Note that any such host aware prototype HDD can still be used
> with Linux as we'll now treat it as a conventional HDD.

Looks good to me!

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering