Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

[Javier Gonzalez]

On 20.08.2020 08:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:37:19AM +0200, Javier Gonzalez wrote:
> > We will stop pushing for this emulation. We have a couple of SSDs where
> > we disabled Append, we implemented support for them, and we wanted to
> > push the changes upstream. That's it. This is no politics not a
> > conspiracy against the current ZNS spec. We spent a lot of time working
> > on this spec and are actually doing a fair amount of work to support
> > Append other places in the stack. In any case, the fuzz stops here.
>
> FYI, from knowing your personally I'm pretty confident you are not
> part of a conspiracy and you are just doing your best given the context,
> and I appreciate all your work!

Thanks Christoph.

> I'm a lot less happy about thinks that happen in other groups not
> involving you directly, and I'm still pretty mad at how the games were
> played there, and especially other actors the seem to be reading the
> list here, and instead of taking part in the discussion are causing fuzz
> in completely unrelated venues.

Yes. Hopefully, we will start keeping things separated and using this
list for Linux, technical conversations only.