Doug,

> The T10 members that I have spoken to, have expressed surprise that
> Linux kernel developers are contemplating removing SCSI bidi support.
> True, XDWRITEREAD and bidi friends have been removed from draft SBC-4
> but they are still used by RAID vendors and there is no move to deprecate
> them from SBC-3, the current standard.

You can't deprecate something from an existing standard.

> There also seems to be a consensus forming to add READ GATHERED (the
> bidi variant) to draft SBC-4.

That's news to me. I haven't heard anything happening on that front in
T10 in a long time.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering

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