[PATCH] nvme: introduce passthrough ioctl for multipath

Javier González javier.gonz at samsung.com
Thu Feb 18 03:48:12 EST 2021


On 18.02.2021 09:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:14:55AM +0900, Minwoo Im wrote:
>> > A container could read data from namespaces assigned to a different
>> > container.
>>
>> Now I got your point! Thanks Keith, please ignore this patch :)
>
>Note that Javier has been working on exposing access to namespaces
>with unsupported command sets for ioctls.  If that is what you are
>looking for.

Minwoo, I think this would apply good on top of the char device patches
I posted a while ago. I have a multipath version working on top, but I
am still working out a good way to expose in sysfs.

We can try to merge these and send the char device with multipath in the
following days. This has been hanging on me more than I wanted it to...



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