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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Javier González" <javier.gonz@samsung.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Kanchan Joshi <joshiiitr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 09:26:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210408072641.GA24793@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210408071128.pps76zydao3oufqn@mpHalley.localdomain>

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:11:28AM +0200, Javier González wrote:
> This would be useful for devices with metadata that is not supported by
> the block layer, i.e., nvme_configure_metadata().

You mean in nvme_update_disk_info?  It would be the right thing to do,
but back in the day the maintainers opted for the zero capacity
block device hack.  At least we now have the char device as well.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-06  6:48 [PATCH V2 0/1] nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev Minwoo Im
2021-04-06  6:48 ` [PATCH V2 1/1] " Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 13:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 14:11     ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 14:21       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:35         ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 15:40           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:44             ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 15:47           ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 16:48             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 16:59               ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 17:09               ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07 17:14                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-08  7:11                   ` Javier González
2021-04-08  7:26                     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-04-08 10:26                       ` Javier González
2021-04-08 11:27                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-08 11:46                           ` Javier González
2021-04-08 12:41                   ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-06  9:01 ` [PATCH V2 0/1] " Niklas Cassel
2021-04-06 13:35   ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-06 14:59     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 16:23       ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07  6:00         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07  6:02           ` Minwoo Im
2021-04-07  7:36       ` Niklas Cassel
2021-04-07  9:39         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 10:00           ` Niklas Cassel
2021-04-07 10:34           ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-07 11:50             ` Javier González
2021-04-06 14:13   ` Kanchan Joshi

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