Re: Recent removal of bsg read/write support

[Richard Weinberger]

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On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 1:37 PM Dror Levin <drorl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Note: I am not subscribed to LKML so please CC replies to this email.
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> Hi,
>
> We have an internal tool that uses the bsg read/write interface to
> issue SCSI commands as part of a test suite for a storage device.
>
> After recently reading on LWN that this interface is to be removed we
> tried porting our code to use sg instead. However, that raises new
> issues - mainly getting ENOMEM over iSCSI for unknown reasons.
>
> Because of this we would like to continue using the bsg interface,
> even if some changes are required to meet security concerns.
>
> Is there any chance for this removal to be reverted? I saw it was
> already included in 4.19-rc1.
>
> Regards,
> Dror



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Thanks,
//richard