[dm-devel] [PATCH 05/57] Add HP MSA 2040 to the hardware table

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 06/10/2016 04:30 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 06/10/2016 08:17 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>
>> On 06/09/2016 04:20 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>
>>> In VxVM(libvxmsa2kfc_sa) they are grouped that way:
>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20160608233140/https://sort.veritas.com/asl/details/756
>>>
>>> Otherwise if hwtable.c is filled with a lot of duplicate entries,
>>> it could be unmanageable.
>
>> Well.
>> MSA2000 is already out of support, and P2000 is heading there.
>> So it's _extremely_ unlikely that we get additional hardware entries for
>> those.
>> At the same time, re-grouping hardware entries by combining regular
>> expressions always has the real risk of messing up the regular
>> expressions, and requires a test on the actual hardware to check if we
>> didn't mess up. Seeing the both are basically unsupported it'll get hard
>> to validate this.
>> For this reasons I prefer to leave them alone.
>
> BTW, a "Unit serial number" attribute could be added to provide more flexibility.
>
Errm.

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Hannes
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