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From: martin.petersen@oracle.com (Martin K. Petersen)
Subject: [PATCH RFC] nvme: Common subsys and controller instances IDA
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:58:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq17eaqbg4c.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190516144452.GB23372@localhost.localdomain> (Keith Busch's message of "Thu, 16 May 2019 08:44:52 -0600")


Keith,

>> to keep in line with the other symlinks in /dev/disk/by-id/ The
>> controller symlinks don't really fall into this category, though; we
>> could create a 'nvme' subdirectory (much like MD does), and create
>> symlinks in there.
>
> Cool, I would also like to see persistent char dev names, but I wasn't
> sure where they'd go. If we can make our own 'nvme' subdirectory,
> that'd be great.

Should be fine. As long as /dev/disk stays intact.

It would be really nice to have a clear indication of
subsys/controller/namespace relationships. So much confusion as a result
of the current approach...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15 21:33 [PATCH RFC] nvme: Common subsys and controller instances IDA Keith Busch
2019-05-16  6:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-16  7:03   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-05-16 14:44     ` Keith Busch
2019-05-16 14:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-16 14:58       ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2019-05-21  9:54         ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-05-21 14:35           ` Keith Busch
2019-05-21 14:51             ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-05-21 14:58               ` Keith Busch
2019-05-24  8:03             ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-05-24 14:07               ` Keith Busch
2019-05-24 16:17                 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-05-24 19:14                   ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-05-24 23:23                     ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-05-24 23:30                       ` Keith Busch
2019-05-16 14:40   ` Keith Busch
2019-05-16 14:57     ` Keith Busch

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