Re: [PATCH v5 05/21] libnvdimm: control (ioctl) messages for libnvdimm bus and dimm devices

Christoph Hellwig
2015-06-09T06:34:28Z

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 08:14:35PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Most discovery/configuration of the libnvdimm-subsystem is done via
> sysfs attributes. However, some libnvdimm buses, particularly the
> ACPI.NFIT bus, define a small set of messages that can be passed to the
> platform. For convenience we derive the initial libnvdimm-ioctl command
> formats directly from the NFIT DSM Interface Example formats.

Why not merge these into the extensive sysfs interface?