From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il (Sagi Grimberg) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:39:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] nvme: make SG_IO support optional In-Reply-To: <1450952155-8693-4-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> References: <1450952155-8693-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1450952155-8693-4-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Message-ID: <567BCB6C.6000502@dev.mellanox.co.il> > Translation SCSI commands to NVMe commands is rather pointless in general > as applications must not expext to be able to use SCSI commands on a > generic block device. > > Make the huge translation layer optional and hope no one will ever enable > it in the future. Umm, this is needed to support multipathing (at least in the multipath daemon current form). I'm not sure this is a good idea just yet...