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

[Scott Bauer]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:04:15AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:50:07PM +0100, David Kozub wrote:
> > This patch series extends SED OPAL support: it adds IOCTL for setting the shadow
> > MBR done flag which can be useful for unlocking an OPAL disk on boot and it adds
> > IOCTL for writing to the shadow MBR. Also included are some minor fixes and
> > improvements.
> 
> Actually most of it is really useful cleanups and small fixes for the
> existing OPAL code.  Any chance you could resend just those bits as
> a first series ASAP?  I'll try to spend some time to to review the
> actual feature additions in the meantime.
> 
> > There is a fork of sed-opal-temp that can use these new IOCTLs.[2] I tested
> > these on Samsung 840 EVO and 850 EVO drives, on x86-64 and arm64 systems.
> 
> Which brings up another question:  how do we get a properly maintained
> version of the sed-opal tool up ASAP?  It's been a bit bitrotting
> unfortunately, and the documentation and error handling hasn't been all
> that great to start with.  Are we going to find a good home for it?
> Util-linux for example?

I would also like to get it off my github and into a proper location as well.

Christoph, do you know off hand how we would get it in util-linux?