[dm-devel] [Consult]: Can the coming Huawei scsi device handler be accepted in the scsi/device_handler

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:08:12PM +0800, Guan Junxiong wrote:
> Hi, Christoph Hellwig
>   Thanks for your reply. But I am  a little confused:
> 
>   Our Huawei scsi device handler will support ALUA. Besides , some new enhancements such as error self negotiation
> on the scsi (maybe NMVe in the future) error status handling to enhance reliability.  Here are two choices:
>    1) Alter the scsi_dh_alua.c directly and make a generic way to handle error status.
>    2) Add a new file named scsi_dh_huawei.c which implements the ALUA feature and error negotiation feature.
> 
>    Can those two choices be accepted by linux-scsi?

The choice is 

 (3) get your enhancements standardized in T10 and NVMe.