Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:33:21 -0600 | From | Keith Busch <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Need NVME QUIRK BOGUS for SAMSUNG MZ1WV480HCGL-000MV (Samsung SM-953 Datacenter SSD) |
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 02:06:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:39:11AM +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote: > > Well, that "They keep pumping out more and more devices with the same > > breakage" and the "new device" comment from Pankaj below bear the > > question: should we stop trying to play "whack a mole" with all those > > quirk entries and handle devices with duplicate ids just like Windows does? > > As far as I can tell Windows completely ignores the IDs. Which, looking > back, I'd love to be able to do as well, but they are already used > by udev for the /dev/disk/by-id/ links. Those are usually not used > on desktop systems, as they use the file system labels and UUIDs, but > that doesn't work for non-file system uses.
It's also an inescapable requirement for supporting multipath, and a number of the devices being quirked bizarrely also report CMIC/NMIC capabilities.
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