[dm-devel] multipath state between user and kernel space

[goggin, edward]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:01:09 +0200
christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui at free.fr> wrote

> On ven, 2005-07-01 at 17:30 -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> > 
> > (2) Two path state values, one for user space and one for the kernel
> > resident multipath target driver,
> > will be shown whenever the cached device configuration 
> information is hot.
> > Otherwise, "multipath -l"
> > shows only the kernel driver's path state value since the 
> user space path
> > state value is not displayed
> > if its value is PATH_UNCHECKED which it will be (for 
> "multipath -l") if the
> > saved device configuration
> > cache is not used.
> > 
> > Seems like either one value should always be displayed or 
> two values should
> > always be displayed --
> > I would certainly prefer that only one value be displayed 
> at all times.
> > Seems like a simple change.
> > 
> Like that ?
> 
>  ...

Yes.  Looks good.  Gives a more deterministic look to
"multipath -l" at least.