[PATCH V2 0/1] nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev

[Javier González]

On 07.04.2021 10:34, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>On 2021/04/07 18:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:36:22AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
>>> The SCSI generic devices are named /dev/sgX while the SCSI block devices
>>> are named /dev/sd*, so the names are more distinct compared to /dev/nvme*
>>> and /dev/nvme-generic-*.
>>>
>>> A "regular" Linux user who writes /dev/sd<tab> will not see the SCSI
>>> generic devices, but with the current proposal, if he writes
>>> /dev/nvme<tab>, he will see the NVMe generic devices.
>>>
>>> I just had a gut feeling that this could cause confusion in the future.
>>> However, I trust your experience and judgement more than my gut feeling.
>>
>> Should we call the nodes /dev/ng* ?
>
>That would be a nice symmetry with scsi / sg. I am all for it.
>This would also make it easier to read a "ls" output, avoiding a lot of nvme
>device names that differ only by 1 character ("c").
>

+1 to this naming convention

We will let the V2 hanging for a couple days and add this in V3 unless
any good argument against it comes.