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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] scsi_dh_alua: Make stpg synchronous
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 08:55:23 +0200
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On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:42:14PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> We should be issuing STPG synchronously as we need to
> evaluate the return code on failure.

How does this fit into the calling convention?  It seems like generally
dm-mpath expects async execution of ->activate.  If we don't actually need
asynchronous activation we should remove it from all the drivers to have
a consistent calling convention.