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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/20] scsi_dh_alua: Allow workqueue to run
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:54:58 +0100
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, James Bottomley <jbottomley@odin.com>, Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>, Bart van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 02:54:18PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> ATM the only ones I know of is NetApp (both FAS and E-series; E-series 
> requires it, and FAS benefits greatly).
> But this is not to say that these are the only ones, _and_ the more obvious 
> approach would be to add the handling to multipath-tools settings, so I 
> really would like to keep the module option for now.

Anything involving multipath-tools settings is a giant nightmare.  We
need to get it rifght in the kernel so that multipathing can work
out of the box.  And the right place for SCSI-level quirks are the
devlist entries.

Module options for hardware specific behavior are a horrible idea - you
can be connect to different devies, which is a very common setup.