[PATCH V2] fabrics: Always pass hostid and hostnqn

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Apr 18 22:14:52 PDT 2024


On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 05:48:41PM -0400, John Meneghini wrote:
> The first is TP-4110 Align Fabrics and PCIe Host Identifier Setting.
>
> From TP-4110: this is requirement for the controller.

Only if you actually implement the TP.  I don't see any reason why
we should implement it.

> Basically, we want to allow all Fabric hosts to connect with HostID == 0. 

No, we don't.  Some people who pushed the agenda in the working group
did and we had to fight to not make it even worse than what got
released.  Doing so would be a retrograde step.

> There is also TP-4126 NVMe-oF Boot HostNQN and HostID. This is a requirement for the host.

No, it is not.  It is a way to be helpful if people implemet the braindead
pre-boot stuff.  There is no real need to do that.




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