[dm-devel] [PATCH v4 3/3] nvme: decouple basic ANA log page re-read support from native multipathing

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Whether or not ANA is present is a choice of the target implementation;
> the host (and whether it supports multipathing) has _zero_ influence on
> this. If the target declares a path as 'inaccessible' the path _is_
> inaccessible to the host. As such, ANA support should be functional
> even if native multipathing is not.

NAK.  nvme-multipathing is the only supported option for subsystems with
multiple controllers.