Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] block: sed-opal: support shadow MBR done flag and write

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Feb 05 2019 - 01:58:01 EST


On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:06:54AM +0100, David Kozub wrote:
> This will unfortunately trigger some changes (conflict resolving - e.g. if I
> move the last two patches in the current series forward, in front of the
> patches with new functionality). What is the proper procedure w.r.t.
> Reviewed-by tags which were already given? Common sense would make me keep
> them for trivial changes and remove them if the patch should be re-reviewed.
> Is that correct?

I don't think there is a general rule. As long as the change is trivial
I keep them personally, otherwise I drop them.

E.g. if you just remove a few hunk because of new code that isn't
present now I'd keep them, if there are more complex changes to the code
flow I would consider dropping them.

> FWIW I also hacked together a tool to cover my usecase:
> https://gitlab.com/zub2/opalctl
>
> The selling point is that it can handle passwords the same way that sedutil
> (https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil) does.

That actually is pretty nice, as it allows people to migrate over
(not that I've heard of a whole lot of usage of sedutil, but being
compatible to some extent is always nice)