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

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Tue Feb 9 09:19:54 PST 2016


On 02/09/2016 10:19 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Updated version below:
>
> ---
>  From d63251560cf2670badbc86c83502502f29c087e0 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>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig b/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
> index 59307f8..68fa858 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
> @@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ 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 the SCSI
> +	  emulation to provide stable device names for mount by id like
> +	  some OpenSuSE and SLES versions.

Thanks, looks good to me, I'll fold it in for the current series.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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