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* provide slaves/holders links for multipath devices
@ 2018-11-16 13:08 Christoph Hellwig
  2018-11-16 13:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: move holder tracking from struct block_device to hd_struct Christoph Hellwig
  2018-11-16 13:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme: create slaves/holder entries for multipath devices Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2018-11-16 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe; +Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, linux-nvme, linux-block

Hi all,

a while ago Thadeu reported installer problems because nvme multipath
didn't provide slaves/holders links for the underlying devices.

This is because for one Tejun said the API shall not be used for new
users, but also because it currently hangs off the block_device
structure, which has a too short lifetime.

This series ignores Tejuns advice given that these links are the
defacto API for stacked block devices, moves the tracking to struct
hd_struct, and makes it work on NVMe multipath.

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2018-11-16 13:08 provide slaves/holders links for multipath devices Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16 13:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: move holder tracking from struct block_device to hd_struct Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-28  1:59   ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-16 13:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme: create slaves/holder entries for multipath devices Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-28  1:59   ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-11-28  8:38   ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-06 15:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-06 16:48       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

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