Here is a proposal to use a bsg endpoint to manage ufs devices.

We will do that by adding a bsg device node to the ufs driver,
and use it to send UPIU transactions to the ufs device.
It will serve as a ufs device management infrastructure, 
for device configuration, provisioning, testing and validation, etc.

We added a new ufs-bsg module, and some new API to the ufs driver.

For the time being, we will not use it for data transfer,
but just for device management per-se.
This has nothing to do with the recent removal of bsg read/write
support, we might add this capability in the future, 
but it is not our current focus.

We tested it on a Hikey-960 platform with a V4.14 kernel,
"modernized" by recent bsg and ufs patches.
We also used a htc11 with a V4.4 kernel, but needed much more
transport/bsg/ufs patches to make it relevant.


V2->v3:
We dropped the scsi transport code (and changed this patch title
to account for it) as we actually just need the bsg device node.
We also withdraw (brokenhearted) from our intension to create
several bsg devices, and add just one. 
Rephrased the doc in Kconfig.

V1->v2:
Use inline functions instead of defines, and ida to obtain the 
port indices, in scsi_transport_ufs module.
Remove the closing data pointer and __packed notation from
struct ufs_bsg_{request_reply}.
Re-use ufshcd_issue_tm_cmd code - needed a couple of patches for that,
and call req_upiu and rsp_upio with their appropriate struct pointers.
Use a more appropriate name when checking if enough memory
was  allocated for write descriptor, and remove redundant goto.
Add reference to the spec to explain uic command size.
Fix a lot of typos.

Avri Altman (7):
  scsi: ufs: Add ufs-bsg module
  scsi: ufs: Instantiate a ufs bsg if its available
  scsi: ufs: Add fill task management request
  scsi: ufs: Allow ufshcd_issue_tm_cmd accept raw task upius
  scsi: ufs: Add API to execute raw upiu commands
  scsi: ufs-bsg: Add support for raw upiu in ufs_bsg_request()
  scsi: ufs-bsg: Add support for uic commands in ufs_bsg_request()

 drivers/scsi/ufs/Kconfig         |  19 +++
 drivers/scsi/ufs/Makefile        |   1 +
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_bsg.c       | 337 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_bsg.h       |  73 +++++++++
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c        | 239 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.h        |   6 +
 include/uapi/scsi/scsi_bsg_ufs.h |  56 +++++++
 7 files changed, 703 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_bsg.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_bsg.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/scsi/scsi_bsg_ufs.h

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