On 05/10/2015 08:40 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> While allowing dm-mpath to attach device handlers is a functionality we need
> for backwards compatibility reason there is no reason to reference count
> them and detach them if dm-mpath stops using the device for some reason.
>
> If the device handler works for the given device it can just stay attached,
> and we can take the retain_hw_handler codepath.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
[ .. ]
>
> @@ -597,20 +595,14 @@ static struct pgpath *parse_path(struct dm_arg_set *as, struct path_selector *ps
> }
>
> if (m->hw_handler_name) {
> - /*
> - * Increments scsi_dh reference, even when using an
> - * already-attached handler.
> - */
> r = scsi_dh_attach(q, m->hw_handler_name);
> 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);
> + char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
> +
Whitespace error ...
Cheers,
Hannes
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