[PATCH v1 1/2] nvme: drop multipath config option

Daniel Wagner dwagner at suse.de
Wed Jul 19 04:13:18 PDT 2023


On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:04:50PM +0200, Keith Busch wrote:
> From my reading of this message, I thought the intention was that this
> driver will eventually replace it with a:
> 
>   			goto out_put_ns_head;

This would obviously make the PowerPath module unhappy. Sure, I am aware of our
upstream policy so I wont argue.

> instead of letting the namespace become visible for some unsupported
> mode. The warning was to give people a chance to migrate off whatever
> unsupported setup they were using, not a deadline for when the warning
> dissappears.

I assume this means the dm-multipath setups? If so, I understand the motivation
but do we really have to burn the bridge here? It's not that we have additional
code or maintaince overhead, except the module parameter multipath.



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