[PATCH 0/3] Improve readbility of NVME "wwid" attribute

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:25:30AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> With the current implementation, the default "fallback" WWID generation
> code (if no nguid, euid etc. are defined) for Linux NVME host and target
> results in the following WWID format:
> 
> nvme.0000-3163653363666438366239656630386200-4c696e75780000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000-00000002
> 
> This is not only hard to read, it poses real problems for multipath
> (dm WWIDs are limited to 128 characters), and it's not fully standards
> compliant.

What standard?  The wwid field is a Linux invention.