Re: Summary of the Multi-Path BOF at OLS and future directions

Alan Cox
2003-08-05T16:51:51Z

On Maw, 2003-08-05 at 04:54, James Bottomley wrote:
> transport errors (relevant to multi-path) and medium errors (relevant to
> software raid).

And multimedia..

> 5. Vendor value add for specific devices could be encoded both as
> configuration (udev) pieces and plug-ins to the upper layer multi-path
> driver to activate any proprietary vendor specific configuration options
> that may be needed for specific solutions.

Vendors will try and arrange that their hotplug only works between
devices entirely of their form. We must be careful not to encourage them
in abusing their userbase.