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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue May 22 2018 - 14:05:14 EST


On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Christoph,
>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:15:09AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> Both SCSI and ATAPI share the sense header. In preparation for using the
>>> struct scsi_sense_hdr more widely, move this into a separate header and
>>> move the helper function to scsi_ioctl.c which is linked with CONFIG_IDE
>>> by way of CONFIG_BLK_SCSI_REQUEST.
>>
>> Please keep the code where it is and just depend on SCSI on the legacy
>> ide driver. No need to do gymnastics just for a legacy case.
>
> Yup, I agree.

Oh, er, this was mainly done at Jens's request. Jens, can you advise?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security