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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	Linux NVMe Mailinglist <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: make controller 'state' sysfs attribute pollable
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:52:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925125211.GD8130@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <daf5fe87-6b93-68aa-65be-b442615b9bd0@suse.de>

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:23:16AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > We could have such an interface I assume. But it would suck to maintain
> > yet another state (we are already having enough trouble to have a
> > coherent controller state machine).
> 
> Weell ... we could be using a notifier chain for that.
> I think I should post my patchset.

The point is: if you want proper multipath behavior use the nvme
in-kernel multipath code.  If you want to weird crap in userspace don't
expect any help from the kernel driver.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20 10:40 [PATCH] nvme: make controller 'state' sysfs attribute pollable Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 10:49 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-09-20 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21  5:19   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-21 14:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-25  5:37     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-09-25  5:59       ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-09-25  7:09         ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-09-25  8:23           ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-09-25 12:52             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-21 12:47   ` Guan Junxiong
2017-09-25  5:36     ` Sagi Grimberg

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