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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] block: expose devt for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN disks
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:32:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213143218.GA8723@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3ef062d-3bc3-fdf8-f395-31d1822a3192@suse.de>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:18:40AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Welll ... this is not just 'lsblk', but more importantly this will force 
> udev to create _block_ device nodes for the hidden devices, essentially 
> 'unhide' them.
>
> Is this what we want?
> Christoph?
> I thought the entire _point_ of having hidden devices is that the are ... 
> well ... hidden ...

Yes, that is why I really don't like the last two patches.

And I've checked back - lsblk actually works just fine at the moment.
But it turns out once we create the slave links it stops working,
which is a really good argument against the first two patches, which
would otherwise seem nice..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-06 16:48 [PATCH 0/4] nvme multipath: expose slaves/holders Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-06 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] block: move holder tracking from struct block_device to hd_struct Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13  9:14   ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-06 16:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] nvme: create slaves/holder entries for multipath devices Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13  9:15   ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-06 16:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] nvme: Should not warn when a disk path is opened Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13  9:16   ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-06 16:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] block: expose devt for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN disks Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-06 20:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-12  8:32     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-12 12:39     ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13  9:18   ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-13 11:41     ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13 12:19       ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-13 16:08         ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13 14:32     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-12-13 15:25       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-13 20:20         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-13 21:00           ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-14  7:47         ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-14  8:56           ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-14  9:06             ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-14  9:54               ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-14 10:18                 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-14 11:09                 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2018-12-14  9:44             ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-12-13  9:33 ` [PATCH 0/4] nvme multipath: expose slaves/holders Johannes Thumshirn
2018-12-13 11:35   ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

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