[dm-devel] [PATCH 7/7] multipath: add option to skip multipathd delegation

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 08:44:10PM +0000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 19:24 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > Add the -D option to allow users to skip delegating commands to
> > multipathd.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  libmultipath/config.h |  1 +
> >  multipath/main.c      | 15 +++++++++++----
> >  multipath/multipath.8 | 16 +++++++++++-----
> >  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> I wonder if we really need this. We fall back to NOT_DELEGATED anyway.
> If users really, really want this, they can run multipath while
> multipathd is stopped.
> 
> I'm not saying it's totally useless, but the presence of this option
> suggests to users that they may want to use it, which I doubt.
> Perhaps we want to have it, for debugging or expert usage purpose, as a
> hidden/undocumented option?

I'm fine with having it as an undocumented option.

-Ben

> 
> Martin
> 
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