On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 15:12 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:46:54PM +0000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > From: Martin Wilck <mwi...@suse.com>
> > 
> > This new configuration parameter can be used to selectively
> > enable foreign libraries. The value is a regular expression,
> > against which foreign library names such as "nvme" are matched.
> > By setting this to a value that matches no foreign library
> > (e.g. "^$" or "NONE"), foreign code is completely disabled.
> > By default, all available foreign libraries are loaded.
> > 
> 
> This will stop the foreign libraries from even claiming devices.
> Won't
> this mean that pathinfo() will now treat these devices as
> multipathable
> paths, since is_claimed_by_foreign() will return false? 

IMO this won't happen, because we ignore the native multipath path
devices anyway as they're "hidden", and we ignore native NVMe multipath
maps because they have "nvme-subsystem" subsystem rather than "nvme"
(commit b18ed66). But I'll double-check again.

Martin


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