From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH] Move nvme driver source into subdirectory and move pci specifics from core into separate file
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:11:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150926161121.GB30551@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1ivSYwe41J+kEuna_VYQvHSLanZzx-qqOOQ3X9EzLWYK_bFQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015@10:32:36PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > a) move files to a new directory. My suggestion for that would be
> > driver/nvme/host/ as I have a software NVMe controller
> > implementation under development which I'd like to also add under
> > a different subdirectory of drivers/nvme.
>
> What's the "software NVMe controller"? Is it the initiator for NVMe
> over fabrics?
It's a software implementation of the NVMe subsystem and controller
interface. It could be frontended by a future fabrics implementation,
a virtio-nvme implementation, a nvme-loop implementation or with some
additional work maybe even a Linux-based PCIe target device.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-26 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 21:27 [PATCH] Move nvme driver source into subdirectory and move pci specifics from core into separate file J Freyensee
2015-09-25 0:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-25 15:12 ` J Freyensee
2015-09-26 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-26 5:32 ` Ming Lin
2015-09-26 16:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-10-09 17:38 ` Ming Lin
2015-10-10 7:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
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