[PATCH] nvme: drop bogus nid quirk for multipath devices which passed id test

Daniel Wagner dwagner at suse.de
Wed Oct 29 03:14:27 PDT 2025


On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 10:59:07AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The problem is that there is no such thing as a sanity check.  Otherwise
> life would be easy.  But I really can't believe that Dell is incompetent
> enough to not leave a mark of their OEM Firmware version anywhere.

Got it. Sure, there are version strings though not really 'stable' as
Hannes told me. Maybe there is a way to filter these out. But isn't this
what the command line idea overwrite feature is?

John, did you have some progress with this?

The sad thing is that the Intel device needs the quirk. If the Dell
device just would use it's own IDs...



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