Re: [PATCH 15/24] compat_ioctl: scsi: move ioctl handling into drivers

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/12/19 9:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 01:28:08AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I think it's because the only ioctl for virtio-blk is SG_IO.  It makes
>> sense to lump it in with scsi, but I wouldn't mind getting rid of
>> CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI altogether.
> 
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI has been broken for about two years, as it
> never set the QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH flag after that was
> introduced.  I actually have a patch that I plan to send to remove
> this support as it was a really idea to start with (speaking as
> the person who had that idea back in the day).

We had this very discussion two years ago, and we never got it removed.
Let's please get it done.

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Jens Axboe