[GIT PULL] SCSI postmerge updates for the 6.8+ merge window

[James Bottomley]

Eleven patches that are based on the rw_hint branch of the vfs tree
which contained the base block and fs changes needed to support this. 
8 patches are in the debug driver and 3 in the core.

The patch is available here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-misc

The short changelog is:

Bart Van Assche (11):
      scsi: scsi_debug: Maintain write statistics per group number
      scsi: scsi_debug: Implement GET STREAM STATUS
      scsi: scsi_debug: Implement the IO Advice Hints Grouping mode page
      scsi: scsi_debug: Allocate the MODE SENSE response from the heap
      scsi: scsi_debug: Rework subpage code error handling
      scsi: scsi_debug: Rework page code error handling
      scsi: scsi_debug: Support the block limits extension VPD page
      scsi: scsi_debug: Reduce code duplication
      scsi: sd: Translate data lifetime information
      scsi: scsi_proto: Add structures and constants related to I/O groups and streams
      scsi: core: Query the Block Limits Extension VPD page

And the diffstat:

 drivers/scsi/Kconfig           |   5 +
 drivers/scsi/Makefile          |   2 +
 drivers/scsi/scsi.c            |   2 +
 drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c      | 293 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/scsi/scsi_proto_test.c |  56 ++++++++
 drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c      |  10 ++
 drivers/scsi/sd.c              | 111 +++++++++++++++-
 drivers/scsi/sd.h              |   3 +
 include/scsi/scsi_device.h     |   1 +
 include/scsi/scsi_proto.h      |  78 +++++++++++
 10 files changed, 490 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/scsi_proto_test.c

James