[PATCH 2/3] nvmet: make the subsystem type configurable

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 4/5/22 07:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:26:33PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Make the subsystem type configurable to allow for unique
>> discovery subsystems by changing the subsystem type to
>> 'discovery'.
> 
> Does it make sense to change the type?  Or should we have a new top-level
> interface to create and configure discovery subsystems from the start?
> 
> If we had e.g.
> 
> /sys/kernel/config/nvmet/discovery-subsystems/
> 
> we could start that out with a pre-filled well known discovery subsystem
> but also allow disabling that for example if we really want.

I actually looked into that with my previous attempt, and really found 
no good way of having an entry which is
a) pre-filled
and
b) removable by the admin later on.
 From what I've seen all pre-filled entries are static; I haven't found 
a way to do pre-filled dynamic entries.

Cheers,

Hannes
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