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

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue May 22 2018 - 14:15:50 EST


On 5/22/18 12:59 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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?

I think Martin and Christoph are objecting to moving the code to
block/scsi_ioctl.h. I don't care too much about where the code is, but
think it would be nice to have the definitions in a separate header. But
if they prefer just pulling in all of SCSI for it, well then I guess
it's pointless to move the header bits. Seems very heavy handed to me,
though.

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Jens Axboe