From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:01:12 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Johannes Thumshirn , Jens Axboe , Mike Snitzer , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] block/bsg: move queue creation into bsg_setup_queue Message-ID: <20170111090112.GA7239@lst.de> References: <1484060780-15592-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1484060780-15592-15-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <20170111084218.GB6286@linux-x5ow.site> <20170111084512.GA6937@lst.de> <8810984d-9929-8937-e82c-94639fd0b8ea@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <8810984d-9929-8937-e82c-94639fd0b8ea@suse.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:59:17AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > I'd advocate to discuss this at LSF. > Now that Mike moved the bio-based mpath stuff back in things got even > more complex. Yeah. If we'd _only_ have bio based support it would simplify things a lot, but as a third parallel path it's not exactly making things easier. > I'll be posting a patchset for reimplementing multipath as a stand-alone > driver shortly; that'll give us a good starting point on how we want > multipath to evolve. > > Who knows; we might even manage to move multipath out of device-mapper > altogether. > That would make Mike very happy, and I wouldn't mind, either :-) Heh. I'm curious how you want to do that while keeping existing setups working, though.