From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:38:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NVMe Add Support for Solid State Media Log Page In-Reply-To: <20160318181946.GG23727@linux.intel.com> References: <20160318165616.GC13054@localhost.localdomain> <20160318181946.GG23727@linux.intel.com> Message-ID: <20160321143835.GA12720@lst.de> 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..