[PATCH 0/2] nvme: handle partially unique NID value

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 4/14/25 13:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 01:31:29PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> We have discussed this at LSF, and the involved parties (ie
>> Samsung as the vendor, HPe as the IHV, and us as the OS provider)
>> are happy with this approach.
>> And we have paying customers for which the cited patch caused a regression,
>> so ignoring it is not an option for us.
> 
> Tell them to fix their broken systems instead of shifting this broken
> crap upstream.  Really, we bend over backwards for consumer hardware
> that doesn't know better.  We don't add crap for vendors that absolutely
> should know better participate in the working group and only provide
> expensive enterprise hardware just because they pay you.  If you have
> so little spine that you want to accommodate this intentionally broken
> behavior do it in your tree but don't force the burden on others.

A simple NACK would have been sufficient.

Cheers,

Hannes 'spineless' Reinecke
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