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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	sagi@grimberg.me, Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers"
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:18:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180307171805.GA810@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjAwxgLXdk1hhmtb3Dp2=U_o1E-MqObBxUroAj+sJU2uNHx4g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 03:56:36PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> The problem is that it's the first of its kind in regard to virtual
> slaves/devices and many of the consumers of block device sysfs simply
> weren't ready for it to appear where it did. Perhaps if it had been a
> different part of sysfs hierarchy and/or linked up a different way
> (virtual-slaves/?) it would have been invisible to programs that
> weren't ready to consume it...

Yes, I think we should simply creates a paths/ directory.  Not sure
there is much point in the backlink.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-07 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-07 13:13 [PATCH] Revert "nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers" Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-07 13:40 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-03-07 15:03   ` Keith Busch
2018-03-07 15:56     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2018-03-07 17:18       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-03-07 17:38         ` Keith Busch
2018-03-07 17:47           ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2018-03-07 20:37             ` Keith Busch
2018-03-07 21:42               ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2018-03-08 17:14         ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-03-08 22:45     ` Keith Busch
2018-03-09  8:51 ` Johannes Thumshirn

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