[RFC PATCH 1/8] nvme-core: add new interfaces

Fri Apr 13 10:27:14 PDT 2018

On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 02:52:15PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> What happens when the nvme device unplugs from the system? We have a
> dangling reference to the controller.. Then when/if the device returns
> it will occupy another controller name (instance id is occupied).
>
> Do we know (or want to know) how to handle such a case?

That is annoying but not really any different from someone holding
open the block or char device, isn't it?