[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath-tools: remove hwhandler when it's alua

[Christophe Varoqui]

Right,

so Xosé, can you confirm the last introduced hwtable entries don't need the
alua hwhandler :
- nexsan
- tegile
- nimble
- nfinidat

Thanks.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:

> On 10/11/2016 08:02 AM, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> > I'm not comfortable with this patch that induces a less predictable
> > behaviour.
> > We have that retain hardware handler switch that users can activate to
> > achieve the purpose.
> >
> > Hannes, Ben, would you support that patch ?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Christophe
> >
> Please don't apply this.
> Autodetection will only work if the hardware handler is loaded.
> If the handler is _not_ loaded autodetection won't work, either.
> And if we add this patch multipath will never load the modules, neither.
>
> So we need this functionality as a fallback if autodetect does not work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
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