This patch introduces a 'default' hardware handler for dm-mpath. When specifying '1 default' dm-multipath will be using the currently attached hardware handler. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c index 922a338..bbf950f 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -586,15 +586,19 @@ static struct pgpath *parse_path(struct dm_arg_set *as, struct path_selector *ps if (m->hw_handler_name) { struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(p->path.dev->bdev); + char *hw_handler = NULL; - r = scsi_dh_attach(q, m->hw_handler_name); + if (strncmp(m->hw_handler_name, "default", 6)) + hw_handler = m->hw_handler_name; + + r = scsi_dh_attach(q, hw_handler); if (r == -EBUSY) { /* * Already attached to different hw_handler, * try to reattach with correct one. */ scsi_dh_detach(q); - r = scsi_dh_attach(q, m->hw_handler_name); + r = scsi_dh_attach(q, hw_handler); } if (r < 0) { -- 1.7.7 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel