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From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] multipath-tools: add FUJITSU/ETERNUS
 2000/4000/8000 to hwtable
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 23:27:02 +0200
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On 10/08/2016 10:30 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:

> Now that you dropped the path selector as suggested back in July [1]
> why not merge this with the ETERNUS DX entry?
> 
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-July/msg00595.html

If a lot of devices share the same configuration some flexibility is lost.
I do not have a single answer.
It's a tricky balance between to group devices and don't lose flexibility.

ETERNUS 2000/4000/8000 are very old and a different generation of devices,
the next year they are going to be declared "EOL" in Japan. In the rest of the
world it was at the beginning of 2015, IIRC.