On 10/11/2016 08:02 AM, Christophe Varoqui wrote: > I'm not comfortable with this patch that induces a less predictable > behaviour. > We have that retain hardware handler switch that users can activate to > achieve the purpose. > > Hannes, Ben, would you support that patch ? > > Best Regards, > Christophe > Please don't apply this. Autodetection will only work if the hardware handler is loaded. If the handler is _not_ loaded autodetection won't work, either. And if we add this patch multipath will never load the modules, neither. So we need this functionality as a fallback if autodetect does not work. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel