[PATCH] NVMe Add Support for Solid State Media Log Page

[hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016@02:19:46PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016@06:04:06PM +0000, David Darrington wrote:
> > This was a customer request. I?ll check to see if they are aware that the component will no longer be supported.
> 
> "will no longer be supported" is Christoph's idea.  I think there are far
> more users of this feature than he realises, and distros will continue
> to enable it.  Much as we might want to get rid of it ...

I kept it around as a non-default to not break existing users.  But
I don't think we should add new feature to it.  I think we should
have a usespace library that application can use instead.  Any chance
we could the original Intel code for the translation licensed under
a permissive license for it?  It know very similar code it available
under a BSD license for the Windows driver, but it it would take a
while to clean it up..