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From:   Javier Gonzalez <javier@javigon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append
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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.