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From: jgarzik@pobox.com (Jeff Garzik)
Subject: [PATCH] NVMe: Add a character device for each nvme device
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:28:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5012EBD9.8010602@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120727181212.GM22985@linux.intel.com>

On 07/27/2012 02:12 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012@10:44:18AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
>> Registers a character device for the nvme module and creates character
>> files as /dev/nvmeN for each nvme device probed, where N is the device
>> instance. The character devices support nvme admin ioctl commands so
>> that nvme devices without namespaces can be managed.
>
> I don't see a problem here, but I'm no expert at sysfs / character devices.
> Alan, Greg, anyone else see any problems with how this character device is
> created / destroyed?

This seems like something normally done via a control device that is 
addressible via bsg.

This is -not- a NAK, but maybe the storage folks have a different 
preference for an admin-command path.

	Jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-27 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27 16:44 [PATCH] NVMe: Add a character device for each nvme device Keith Busch
2012-07-27 18:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2012-07-27 18:25   ` Greg KH
2012-07-27 19:08     ` Matthew Wilcox
2012-07-27 19:21       ` Greg KH
2012-07-27 20:30         ` Matthew Wilcox
2012-07-27 19:28   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2012-07-27 20:26     ` Matthew Wilcox
2012-07-27 20:42       ` Jeff Garzik
2012-07-27 20:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
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2012-08-02 19:10 Keith Busch

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