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From: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
To: "longguang.yue" <bigclouds@163.com>, martin.petersen@oracle.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a parameter to set sd driver's probe mode.
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:19:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d6d4bdfb945af6787f2d1184ddb6eb9968fd753.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230425075948.87632-1-bigclouds@163.com>

On Tue, 2023-04-25 at 15:59 +0800, longguang.yue wrote:
> Asynchronous probe leads to the change of disk name, so it is hard
> to trace disk by its name for monitoring system.

This won't work: just not doing async sd attach doesn't fix all the
other causes of asynchronicity that cause sd names to change. You need
to look at addressing disks by one of the permanent /dev/disk/by-*
device files.

James


      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-25 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-25  7:59 [PATCH] Add a parameter to set sd driver's probe mode longguang.yue
2023-04-25 12:19 ` James Bottomley [this message]

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