[systemd-devel] 60-persistent-storage.rules: add NVMe disks and partitions (again)

[Keith Busch]

Kay Sievers <kay <at> vrfy.org> writes:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart <at> poettering.net> wrote:
> > Well, nothing changed really: we'd like to remove scsi_id from
> > systemd/udev upstream. Please ask sg_utils to pick it up
> > instead. We'll continue to support the status quo for a while longer,
> > but it can't stay this way, and we shouldn't add new features to
> > it while it's in limbo.
> 
> Yeah, not sure how much NVMe has to do with SCSI. It might make more
> sense to export the primary values to identify these devices by the
> kernel driver in /sys, instead of excapsulating/emulating the SCSI
> behavior. The kernel does that for other block device types like mmc
> too.

I also like native nvme identification over scsi translation. Is the mmc
way your preferred method for consuming these? If so, can you provide a
pointer in that driver for what they're doing? I can probably get it in
the nvme driver for 4.2.

Thanks,
Keith