Re: Fwd: Need NVME QUIRK BOGUS for SAMSUNG MZ1WV480HCGL-000MV (Samsung SM-953 Datacenter SSD)

[Keith Busch]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 02:06:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:39:11AM +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> > Well, that "They keep pumping out more and more devices with the same
> > breakage" and the "new device" comment from Pankaj below bear the
> > question: should we stop trying to play "whack a mole" with all those
> > quirk entries and handle devices with duplicate ids just like Windows does?
> 
> As far as I can tell Windows completely ignores the IDs.  Which, looking
> back, I'd love to be able to do as well, but they are already used
> by udev for the /dev/disk/by-id/ links.   Those are usually not used
> on desktop systems, as they use the file system labels and UUIDs, but
> that doesn't work for non-file system uses.

It's also an inescapable requirement for supporting multipath, and a
number of the devices being quirked bizarrely also report CMIC/NMIC
capabilities.