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

[Javier Gonzalez]

On 05.05.2025 13:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 11:51:39AM +0200, Javier Gonzalez wrote:
>> I think we should let HPE distros carry this quirk for drives where they
>> would not want to roll a FW update.
>
>Or just goddamn people to upgrade the broken firmware.  Without it
>their data is at risk, so they'd better do it.
>
>Also maybe this is a lesson to SSDs vendors (and I really mean all of
>them) that if they can't push back ob broken "features" due to market
>dynamics they should at least OEM brand the devices in the identify
>data so that the blame gets deflected to the right party.

Agree. The dynamics of how OEMs want to apply FW updates is up to them,
but there is no doubt this has been a mess. Hope we have learned a
lesson...