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From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 03:29:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support:
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2017@12:33:40PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017@9:34 AM, Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like they can make existing nvme tooling work with little
> > effort if they have the driver implement NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_COMMAND, and
> 
> Precisely, I was thinking on the same line and you clarified. I will
> spend sometime on this and get back to you.

Sounds good. Just note that while the majority of NVMe management should
be reachable with just that IOCTL, some tooling features may not work
correctly since they look for /dev/nvmeX, and I assume this driver will
create /dev/sdX instead.