[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] multipath: path validation library prep work

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 02:55:05PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 23:57 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > I've been playing around with the SID code more and I've decided to
> > hold
> > off on submitting the library until I have it working with the SID
> > multipath module better. Instead, I've pulled out the common code
> > thatremember_cmdline_wwid
> > multipath -u/-c and the library can use, and put it into
> > libmultipath.
> > 
> > I've also removed some of the ordering differences between the
> > existing
> > code and my new code.  Right now, the only difference is that if a
> > path
> > is currently multipathed, it will always be claimed as a valid path.
> > 
> > Patches 0001 & 0002 are the same as in my "RFC PATCH v2" set, and
> > patch
> > 0005 is the same as my "libmultipath: simplify failed wwid code"
> > patch.
> > 
> > Only patches 0003 and 0004 haven't been posted before.
> > 
> > Changes from v1:
> > 0003: Minor fixes suggested by Martin Wilck
> > 0004: Fixed typo, added tests for filter_property() and switched some
> >       tests to pass the check_multipathd code in various ways,
> > instead
> >       of skipping it, as suggested by Martin Wilck
> > 
> 
> This set (v2) doesn't apply cleanly to upstream, neither with or
> without my late patches. It's been generated against a tree that
> included "Make multipath add wwids from kernel cmdline mpath.wwids with
> -A" (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4445691/). From my series, it's
> missing "libmultipath: move libsg into libmultipath".
> 
> Apart from that, for the series:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>

Whoops. I accidentally sent patches from the branch that's built on top
of my latest RHEL code. Resending.

-Ben
 
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