On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:57:13AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > In general I am _not_ in favour of this approach. > > This is essentially the same level of multipath support we had in the > old qlogic and lpfc drivers in 2.4/2.6 series, and it took us _years_ to > get rid of this. > Main objection here is that it will be really hard (if not impossible) > to use the same approach for other subsystems (eg SCSI), so we'll end up > having different multipath implementations depending on which subsystem > is being used. > Which really is a maintenance nightmare. > > I'm not averse to having other multipath implementations in the kernel, > but it really should be abstracted so that other subsystems can _try_ to > leverage it. Got it. Thanks!
