linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme: Mark external NVMe devices as removable

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:39:02 +0800
From:   Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     kbusch@...nel.org, axboe@...com, sagi@...mberg.me,
        Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: Mark external NVMe devices as removable

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:03 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 08:50:33PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > USB thumb drives also use this flag, so I am not sure why it's not
> > applicable to NVMe?
>
> They shouldn't report this flag and might need fixing.

So what should we do? Introduce a different flag but with identical
usage for external USB and NVMe storages?

Kai-Heng