From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:18:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers" In-Reply-To: References: <20180307131358.20275-1-hch@lst.de> <1c1332d4-1d92-af8f-974c-2eafcde741f2@suse.de> <20180307150344.GE30975@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20180307171805.GA810@lst.de> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018@03:56:36PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > The problem is that it's the first of its kind in regard to virtual > slaves/devices and many of the consumers of block device sysfs simply > weren't ready for it to appear where it did. Perhaps if it had been a > different part of sysfs hierarchy and/or linked up a different way > (virtual-slaves/?) it would have been invisible to programs that > weren't ready to consume it... Yes, I think we should simply creates a paths/ directory. Not sure there is much point in the backlink. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:58688 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751284AbeCGRSH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2018 12:18:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:18:05 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: Keith Busch , Hannes Reinecke , Christoph Hellwig , linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Jens Axboe , sagi@grimberg.me, Potnuri Bharat Teja , Karel Zak , stable Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers" Message-ID: <20180307171805.GA810@lst.de> References: <20180307131358.20275-1-hch@lst.de> <1c1332d4-1d92-af8f-974c-2eafcde741f2@suse.de> <20180307150344.GE30975@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 03:56:36PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > The problem is that it's the first of its kind in regard to virtual > slaves/devices and many of the consumers of block device sysfs simply > weren't ready for it to appear where it did. Perhaps if it had been a > different part of sysfs hierarchy and/or linked up a different way > (virtual-slaves/?) it would have been invisible to programs that > weren't ready to consume it... Yes, I think we should simply creates a paths/ directory. Not sure there is much point in the backlink.