linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvmet: preserve controller serial number between reboots

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:06:52 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Cc:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, mwilck@...e.de,
        Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux NVMe Mailinglist <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvmet: preserve controller serial number between
        reboots

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 03:30:39PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> It seems weird that a subsystem has a serial.

But that's actually how NVMe defines them.  Which mean we first
need to fix our code to generate a serial number per subsystem,
and on top of that the patch from Johannes seems perfectly reasonable.