> > So here the 'serial' is declared as mandatory. It's optional in the XML > parser/formatter and mandatory in the commandline formatter. With other > devices it's optional so it's most likely going to need an <optional> > block. > > This series is also completely lacking documentation > (docs/formatdomain.rst) documenting bot the new controller and disk > type. As described earlier, the intention is for the serial field to be mandatory. Perhaps the parser/formatter handling led to some confusion? Any suggestions are very welcome. I'll add documentation for it in docs/formatdomain.rst.
