Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x83 node

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

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:12:02PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> David Vrabel writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document 
> scsi/0x12/0x83 node"):
> > On 22/03/16 14:10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > Just think of it as a black box.
> > 
> > This isn't sufficient.
> > 
> > You are presenting a solution but have not properly described the
> > problem so no one can evaluate whether the solution is appropriate.
> 
> I'm sorry to be awkward, but I'm afraid I do agree with David Vrabel's
> messages in this thread.
> 
> I don't think this is a sterile academic conversation which would (if
> satisfactorily answered) have no real implications.  Rather, if we
> understood the use case properly, there would probably be implications
> for whether how this functionality ought to be exposed via the libxl
> API; whether blkfront should consume this information by default; and
> so on.

Lets take one step back.

What is the problem with documenting an existing use-case in blkif.h?

Regardless of whether it is viewed "legacy" by some folks and by others
drivers it is still in use?

> 
> Ian.

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