Re: [PATCH 35/35] monitor: add option --keep/-K

Sagi Grimberg
2021-01-29T21:21:36Z

>> I don't even see how does this help in early boot anyways, how
>> do the existing controllers get connected?
>
> For FC, it works today. You can start the monitor in the initrd, it
> will receive the fc_udev_device events, and autoconnect (just like
> traditional udev/systemd based discovery). For other transports, it'd
> be more work, as we'd need to do mDNS discovery from an initrd
> environment. I wouldn't say it's impossible though.

I was referring to the nvme controller walk and connect a discovery
controller to that endpoint. I thought you meant that this helps
you at early boot time.