[PATCH] nvme: introduce passthrough ioctl for multipath

Minwoo Im minwoo.im.dev at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 16:27:49 EST 2021


On 21-02-18 09:48:12, Javier González wrote:
> 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...

Thanks Javier, That sounds cool.  will have a look at your patch first!



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