[PATCH RFC nvme-cli 0/2] auto generate hostnqn file on installation

[J Freyensee]

On Sun, 2016-11-06 at 23:36 +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Not sure if it's the best way to do this as my packeging
> > > understanding is
> > > very limited, hence the RFC. the debian part is tested (don't
> > > have
> > > access to rpm distros at the moment).
> > 
> > My idea was to add a command to generate an automatic hostnqn to
> > the nvme tool instead, what would you think about that?
> 
> I'm fine with that too.

How about an extra tweak to that tool proposal?  Have the tool have the
option to do both NQN supported formats:

A. the first format that uses a date code in which I think that is what
patch 2 in this series was trying to do

and

B. The second format the NVMe Host driver is already does in fabrics.c 

> 
> > 
> > The install scripts could then call that.
> 
> Sounds fine.