Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block: make elevator_get robust against cross blk/blk-mq choice

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 02/14/2017 08:07 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 07:58:22AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> While we're at the topic:
>>
>> Can't we use the same names for legacy and mq scheduler?
>> It's quite an unnecessary complication to have
>> 'noop', 'deadline', and 'cfq' for legacy, but 'none' and 'mq-deadline'
>> for mq. If we could use 'noop' and 'deadline' for mq, too, the existing
>> settings or udev rules will continue to work and we wouldn't get any
>> annoying and pointless warnings here...
> 
> I mentioned this to Jens a little while ago but I didn't feel strongly
> enough to push the issue. I also like this idea -- it makes the
> transition to blk-mq a little more transparent.
> 
And saves us _a lot_ of support cases :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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