From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] block: expose devt for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN disks
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:00:43 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213210042.GC5321@calabresa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181213202016.GA15992@lst.de>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:20:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:25:33PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > > 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..
> >
> > Which is why I have sent the "paths/" patchset in the first place. Because I
> > did some homework and read the previous discussion about this, and how lsblk
> > failure to behave with slave links led to the revert of the slaves/holders
> > patch by Dr. Hannes.
>
> Sorry, I did not actually notice that Hannes patch manually created
> the same slaves/holders link we otherwise create using the block layer
> APIs. Had I realized those actually were the same that had saved
> me some work.
>
> So I guess the v2 paths/ link patch from you is the least of all evils.
> Hannes, can you look over that one?
No hard feelings. Sorry we had to go through all these messages to make that
clear.
This should be Message-Id: <20181101232955.19329-1-cascardo@canonical.com> and
Hannes was on Cc as well.
Regards.
Cascardo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-13 21:00 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
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 [this message]
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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