From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Niklas Cassel <Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com>
Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"Minwoo Im" <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>,
"linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
"Keith Busch" <kbusch@kernel.org>, "Jens Axboe" <axboe@fb.com>,
"Sagi Grimberg" <sagi@grimberg.me>,
"Kanchan Joshi" <joshiiitr@gmail.com>,
"Javier González" <javier.gonz@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/1] nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:39:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210407093923.GA31210@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG1g9bMYRjS3uCXs@x1-carbon.lan>
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:36:22AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> The SCSI generic devices are named /dev/sgX while the SCSI block devices
> are named /dev/sd*, so the names are more distinct compared to /dev/nvme*
> and /dev/nvme-generic-*.
>
> A "regular" Linux user who writes /dev/sd<tab> will not see the SCSI
> generic devices, but with the current proposal, if he writes
> /dev/nvme<tab>, he will see the NVMe generic devices.
>
> I just had a gut feeling that this could cause confusion in the future.
> However, I trust your experience and judgement more than my gut feeling.
Should we call the nodes /dev/ng* ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 6:48 [PATCH V2 0/1] nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev Minwoo Im
2021-04-06 6:48 ` [PATCH V2 1/1] " Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 14:11 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 14:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:35 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:44 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 15:47 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 16:59 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 17:09 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 17:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-08 7:11 ` Javier González
2021-04-08 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-08 10:26 ` Javier González
2021-04-08 11:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-08 11:46 ` Javier González
2021-04-08 12:41 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-06 9:01 ` [PATCH V2 0/1] " Niklas Cassel
2021-04-06 13:35 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-06 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 16:23 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 6:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 6:02 ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 7:36 ` Niklas Cassel
2021-04-07 9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-04-07 10:00 ` Niklas Cassel
2021-04-07 10:34 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-07 11:50 ` Javier González
2021-04-06 14:13 ` Kanchan Joshi
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