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Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:48:57 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] bsg-lib: handle bidi requests without block layer
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Benjamin Block wrote:
> This seems like a non-obvious user-breakage. So apart from removing the
> in-kernel stuff that uses bidirectional commands you also forbid
> userspace from every using them? That seems wrong to me.
> 
> There is other SCSI Command Sets than OSD that provide bidirectional
> commands, even SBC has some (i.e.  X*WRITE*, COMPARE AND WRITE).

Yes, there are a few.  But the only driver that even supports them
right now is iscsi_tcp to start with, and we have to drag a significant
amount of code around just to support this corner case.