Re: [PATCH 3/6] block: Create scsi_sense.h for SCSI and ATAPI

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 09:32:33 EST


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 08:13:56AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Should I move to code to a new drivers/scsi/scsi_sense.c and add it to
> > drivers/scsi/Makefile as:
> >
> > obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST) += scsi_sense.o
> >
> > Every place I want to use the code is already covered by
> > CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST, so it seems like I just need to know where to
> > put the .c file. :P
>
> I think this is so much saner than a SCSI select or dependency, so I'll
> have to disagree with Martin and Christoph. Just put it in drivers/scsi,
> if it's the location they care about.

I actually plan to remove CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST in a merge window
or two. The only users are scsi and the ide layer, (virtio_blk
support has already been accidentally disabled for a while), and getting
rid of it allows to to shrink and simply the scsi data structures.

But if you want this for now lets keep scsi_sense.c in drivers/scsi
but depend on CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST, that is easy enough to fix up.