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
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