complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO support optional

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Feb 9 09:12:29 PST 2016


Does this looks reasonable?

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>From 7843fae979df3fc14007735f54cc6bb2f6f66dc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 18:11:32 +0100
Subject: nvme: fix Kconfig description for BLK_DEV_NVME_SCSI

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
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 drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig b/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
index 59307f8..2e24156 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ config BLK_DEV_NVME_SCSI
 	  and block devices nodes, as well a a translation for a small
 	  number of selected SCSI commands to NVMe commands to the NVMe
 	  driver.  If you don't know what this means you probably want
-	  to say N here, and if you know what it means you probably
-	  want to say N as well.
+	  to say N here, unless you run a distro that abuses this for
+	  stable device names like some OpenSuSE and SLES versions.
 
 config NVME_FABRICS
 	tristate
-- 
2.1.4




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