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Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO support optional

From Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO support optional
Date 2016-02-08 16:20 +0100
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On 02/08/2016 04:12 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:13:50AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:01:16PM +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do we have defined sysfs attributes for NVMe devices nowadays?
>>>
>>> /sys/block/nvme0n1/uuid
>>
>> That's only supported for NVMe 1.1 and higher devices, and optional.
>> For older or stupid devices we need to support the algorithm based
>> on the serial attribute from nvme_fill_device_id_scsi_string() in
>> drivers/nvme/host/scsi.c.
> 
> It's even worse. NGUID was defined for 1.2 devices and higher. 1.1
> devices should have EUI-64 at:
>  
>   /sys/block/nvmeXnY/eui
> 
> 1.2 devices will have either uuid or eui (or both).
> 
> The majority of devices in circulation today are 1.0, and need to concat
> these three entries to make a unique identifier:
> 
>   /sys/block/nvmeXnY/device/serial
>   /sys/block/nvmeXnY/device/model
>   /sys/block/nvmeXnY/nsid

Ok, so what about having a 'wwid' attribute which provides combined
information (like scsi has)?

Cheers,

Hannes
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complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO support  optional James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-02-06 19:40 +0100
  Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-02-07 10:30 +0100
    Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-02-07 17:10 +0100
      Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-02-07 23:30 +0100
        Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-02-08 00:10 +0100
          Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-02-08 08:30 +0100
          Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2016-02-08 08:40 +0100
            Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il> - 2016-02-08 11:10 +0100
              Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-02-08 11:20 +0100
                Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2016-02-08 16:20 +0100
                Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2016-02-08 17:20 +0100
                Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2016-02-08 16:20 +0100
            Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-02-08 16:30 +0100
      Re: complete boot failure in 4.5-rc1 caused by nvme: make SG_IO  support optional Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2016-02-08 08:30 +0100

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