Instead of silently ignoring the arguments specified along with the hardware handler, print some warning message to inform the user that the arguments are dropped. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6.27-rc3/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.27-rc3.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ linux-2.6.27-rc3/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -685,6 +685,10 @@ static int parse_hw_handler(struct arg_s m->hw_handler_name = NULL; return -EINVAL; } + + if (hw_argc > 1) + DMWARN("Ignoring arguments for hardware handler \"%s\"", + m->hw_handler_name); consume(as, hw_argc - 1); return 0; -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel