[PATCH] nvme: Remove SCSI translations

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Wed Jun 14 08:17:35 PDT 2017


Keith,

> The SCSI-to-NVMe translations were added to assist storage
> applications utilizing SG_IO transitioning to NVMe. It was always
> recommended, however, to use native NVMe for device management: too
> much is lost in translation and the maintenance burden in keeping this
> kludgey layer around has been neglected such that much of the
> translations are completely broken.
>
> This patch removes SG_IO handling from NVMe. The config option has
> been disabled by default for quite some time now, so hopefully it's
> safe to remove. If not, this will force people to do the right thing.

Good riddance!

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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