[PATCH v2 6/8] nvme: provide UUID value to userspace

Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn at suse.de
Thu Jun 1 06:01:11 PDT 2017


On 06/01/2017 02:47 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> FWIW, tools should have been using the 'wwid' attribute, which returns
> either EUI64 or NGUID so a unique identifier can be gotten from a
> single file without checking for the existence of either. That should
> help not break backward compatibility, but I've no idea if anything
> actually relies on 'uuid' returning the NGUID.

Yep, that's why I though I'd be clever and place this hack in there. I
think we can remove it in 1-2 years or so when most/all userspace has
adopted to the change (there shouldn't be too much apart from some hand
crafted udev rules anyways).

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