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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Cc: "aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ndctl PATCH v2 1/2] ndctl/namespace: Rework counts reported by enable-namespace
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:23:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8935e720b47a60e4b7ea75700b91be312ce6bfb.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191105172713.3628-1-vishal.l.verma@intel.com>


On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 10:27 -0700, Vishal Verma wrote:
> Add detection of 'seed' namespaces
> (ndctl_namespace_is_configuration_idle()) to the enable-namespace
> operatiuon and libndctl API. In libndctl, return a '1' for seed
> namespaces. In namespace.c, reinterpret a '1' based on a check for a
> seed namespace, and decide on skip vs success accordingly. Collect this
> into a new namespace_enable helper, and make the reported count
> consistent by also skipping namespaces that were already enabled.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/issues/119
> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - The kernel is the ultimate authority on enabling namespaces, so we
>   should let it make the decision of how to handle seed namespaces
>   instead of preemptively skipping them. Let the kernel make that
>   decision, and fix up error reporting after the fact.

These break the unit tests, so I'll have to take another look at this.
I suspect the added complexity is probably not worth the few extra
prints from seed namespaces for operations using the 'all' keyword.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-12 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-05 17:27 [ndctl PATCH v2 1/2] ndctl/namespace: Rework counts reported by enable-namespace Vishal Verma
2019-11-05 17:27 ` [ndctl PATCH v2 2/2] ndctl/namespace: fix reported count for disable-namespace Vishal Verma
2019-11-12 19:23 ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]

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