[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Don't blacklist nvme

[Bart Van Assche]

On 02/14/2017 01:19 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> These devices are mulitpath capable, and have been able to stack with
> dm-mpath since kernel 4.2.
> 
> -	str = STRDUP("^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st|dcssblk|nvme)[0-9]");
> +	str = STRDUP("^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st|dcssblk)[0-9]");

Have you checked whether dm-mpath works properly with nvme? Last time I
tried that dm-mpath crashed when it called scsi_dh_attach() because that
last function assumes that it is passed a SCSI device queue instead of
checking whether or not the queue passed to that function is a SCSI
device queue.

Bart.
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