Currently dm ignores the parameters provided to hardware handlers without providing any notifications to the user. This patch just prints a warning message so that the user knows that the arguments are ignored. 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 @@ -708,6 +708,10 @@ static int parse_hw_handler(struct arg_s m->hw_handler_name = NULL; return -EINVAL; } + + if (hw_argc > 1) + DMWARN("Ignoring user specified 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