[dm-devel] Re: get_evpd_wwid

[Hannes Reinecke <hare suse de>]

christophe varoqui wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what do think of suppressing the get_evpd_wwid() function ?
>
> 1. I have one bug report from Andy, describing an endless loop with an
> aacraid device.
>
> 2. the resulting uid is not identical to scsi_id output : missing the
> type prefix.
>
> Is it worth fixing this beast ?
Nope. Trash it.
IMHO it's better to have central tools (ie scsi_id) and let those handle 
things correctly rather than to rely on our own, most likely imperfect, 
fallback.
scsi_id has a wider scope, better testing, and another maintainer.
Less work for us, and fixing bugs in that ends up help a lot more 
applications than just multipath-tools.

Cheers,

Hannes
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