Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:01:18 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: state of the osdblk driver? |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:47:36PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > It is used in testing, its a good way to compare ext4 over objects > vs exofs over objects, kind of compare apples with apples. > (Also at the get go it was a good test that found some bugs in the > bring up of the osd target) > > If there is an old tagging API need removing its fine to just drop > the support, and/or do the minimal change possible. What was the > tag used for anyway? > > If it bothers you very much then please remove it, send a patch > and I'll ACK it.
I'm mostly just trying to figure out if anyone cares. Would you be willing to sign up as a maintainer, and maybe even look into a blk-mq conversion? I'd be happy to help to answer questions and review it.
> [Just that I thought we don't do that. I can show you a dozen > ISA scsi LLD controllers which are a complete pain in the neck > with a all subsection core support. There is not a single system > on the planet that has this even possible, yet we do not remove > them nor the ISA bus crap. osdblk at least is a SW only exercise > that can be very much valid in any system. > ]
Not sure what exactly you mean, but I'm open to any serious proposal to get rid of not actually usable cruft in old SCSI HBA drivers. Feel free to send a proposal to linux-scsi - I was planning to come up with one of my own, but never got to it.
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