From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57E00F9D6 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.95.11.211 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741756812; cv=none; b=SCDUFH5vPvaHlRqKlsVhilDlQpyzW0kmciWzq4ASrA9+wqlqfCVSevMhmvTfLFINre+KpB2NrQt1g9eLCqoAXovNvKenQvCVC1ZrG0H0wRCxRZ/xssktDZ7NKJMR7tF424jKWsDasWxuPj1r8rAEVe1KoE5FhDljecvoihukKmM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741756812; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ngAEhgKY4Clg2d4DtzVaHOsEC7Gc3MfDDpegS4C4r/A=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=OVpLGTESLEoh8hVAckXBWfb71fCwfuerCnlydTW7JPYPOEpATDWAsrQAShsBbhUpn+BvKSIho4hwwNHj2Rhp8ES2gHoXsOYWVBOFVQ7xQSSijuvcbNfqH/B3jepV5jCfQDQKeh8NCsFt/IjSRFYMacxLLi6vtKtOAi9kLDtpkyo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lst.de; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.95.11.211 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lst.de Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 3C2DB68AA6; Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:19:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:19:58 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: John Meneghini Cc: Christoph Hellwig , kbusch@kernel.org, sagi@grimberg.me, loberman@redhat.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, emilne@redhat.com, bgurney@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] nvme-multipath: add the NVME_MULTIPATH_PARAM config option Message-ID: <20250312051958.GA11824@lst.de> References: <20250228032541.369804-1-jmeneghi@redhat.com> <20250228032541.369804-3-jmeneghi@redhat.com> <20250305143353.GB18526@lst.de> <03e7cc64-fafd-405e-a07a-4bc6d0e1d743@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03e7cc64-fafd-405e-a07a-4bc6d0e1d743@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 10:35:40PM -0400, John Meneghini wrote: >> What's the point of adding yet another confusing option? > > If you'll read the kConfig description, hopefully it's not confusing. It still is. > The whole point of this patch series is to remove the core.nvme_mulipath parameter. Why would a compile time option be preferable over a runtime one?