[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath-tools: don't discard uevent for NVMe-Fabrics device

[Martin Wilck]

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 15:47 +0800, Guan Junxiong wrote:
> The devpath of uevent of NVMe-Fabrics device is like this
> "../devices/virtual/nvme-fabrics/ctl/nvme0/nvme0n1" which
> doesn't contains the "/block/" string. So when new uvents
> of such nvme devices arise, the multipathd daemon still ignores
> them, which results the DM-multipath doesn't update the table.
> This patch fixes this by introducing a new helper to filter
> "/block/" and "nvme-fabrics/ctl".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junxiong Guan <guanjunxiong at huawei.com>

The analysis is correct, but NAK nonetheless for the patch. The whole
uevent_can_discard_by_devpath() approach is broken. I'll send a patch
dropping that function entirely later today.

Martin

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