On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:09:36 +0300, Konstantin Shelekhin wrote:
> This patch series (inspired by SCST) adds support for the dummy devices
> via the new DUMMY flag of rd_mcp. The rationale behind the change is to
> give a user the ability to create conifgurable devices for LUN 0 with
> custom WWN values (like vendor, product or revision) as some tools like
> QConvergeGUI use LUN 0 to identify the whole storage.
>
> The advantage over simply creating a NULLIO rd_mcp device is that the
> DUMMY device will not be seen as a block device, hence less confusion
> for the system administrator.
>
> [...]
Applied to 5.13/scsi-queue, thanks!
[1/2] target: Add the DUMMY flag to rd_mcp
https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/0aecfa662e43
[2/2] target: Make the virtual LUN 0 device dummy
https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/1b5ad814af5e
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
