[PATCH rfc 6/6] nvme-fabrics: expose support for traddr as dns names to userspace

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Thu Aug 17 02:41:43 PDT 2023


On 8/17/23 11:11, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/13/23 16:07, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>>
[ .. ]
>> So I figured that the current approach would be preferable if
>> we accept how to expose that for a given kernel/driver, we can
>> accept dns names, or we cannot.
>>
>> What do others think? Christoph? Keith? Chaitanya?
> 
> Anyone has feedback here?
> 
> Seems that we want this, but the question is how to expose
> a new format of traddr (now can be a dns name) to userspace?

Or have a new token 'traddr_dns' (instaed of 'traddr'), which would
hold the dnsname instead of the ip address.
And reject inputs where both are set.
Hmm?

Cheers,

Hannes
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