From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/17] scsi_dh_alua: Disable ALUA handling for non-disk devices Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 14:19:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20150511121915.GA5661@lst.de> References: <1430743343-47174-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <1430743343-47174-3-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <20150511064643.GB30516@lst.de> <555083AF.1000605@suse.de> <20150511113451.GA4803@lst.de> <555098A3.6030106@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:40153 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751912AbbEKMTR (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2015 08:19:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <555098A3.6030106@suse.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:55:15PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > As said above; we _could_ drop this patch and update error > handling, but then we'll risk of having more bug reports > due to invalid ALUA implementations. > Might be worth it, though, as then we could get in touch > with the respective vendors. But then, maybe not, as not > every vendor is willing to listen to us... > > I don't really have a fixed opinion here; either way is > fine with me. For now mayeb reject a everything but TYPE_SBC and add a comment explaining why, i.e. a short form of the reasons in this mail.