Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 1] interface: BLKIF_OP_TRIM -> BLKIF_OP_DISCARD

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:40:04AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 19:27 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:58:42PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > 
> > Per Ian and Jan's suggestion (note, the structure is 4-byte aligned
> > so we do not need to pad it):
> > 
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # Parent 72f339bc600d7a9629d3f9eb8a279fbf8be25b12
> > interface: BLKIF_OP_TRIM -> BLKIF_OP_DISCARD
> > 
> > The name 'trim' is specific to the ATA discard implementation.
> > The name 'scsi unmap' is specific to the SCSI discard implementation.
> > 
> > We should really use a generic name - and the name 'discard'
> > looks to be the most generic of them all. Also update the description
> > to mention the other parameters that the frontend can query the
> > backend for: discard-aligment, discard-granularity, and
> > discard-secure. We also utilize per Jan Beulich keen suggestion,
> > the 8-bit reserved field to use as a flag value. Currently the only
> > flag that can be passed for a discard operation is secure delete:
> > BLKIF_OP_DISCARD_FLAG_SECURE.
> 
> This change seems to be conflating a large rename with new data fields,
> changes to the documentation in the comments and other bits and bobs,
> which makes it pretty hard to review it's actual impact. Can we get them
> separately?

Of course. Sent them along with Jan's Acked-by flag.

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