[PATCH] Revert "nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers"

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Mar 7 09:18:05 PST 2018


On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 03:56:36PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> The problem is that it's the first of its kind in regard to virtual
> slaves/devices and many of the consumers of block device sysfs simply
> weren't ready for it to appear where it did. Perhaps if it had been a
> different part of sysfs hierarchy and/or linked up a different way
> (virtual-slaves/?) it would have been invisible to programs that
> weren't ready to consume it...

Yes, I think we should simply creates a paths/ directory.  Not sure
there is much point in the backlink.



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