From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NVMe: Add a character device for each nvme device
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:42:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5012FD19.5090100@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120727202655.GP22985@linux.intel.com>
On 07/27/2012 04:26 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Maybe we should design such a mechanism, but maybe we shouldn't ... as we
> find common things to do, we tend to move those to sysfs, not ioctls,
> and the kinds of commands that are being sent here are essentially
> vendor-specific NVMe commands; it's not clear they'd fit neatly into a
> generic mechanism.
You're delivering arbitrary packets to the device from userspace, and it
is returning arbitrary packets to userspace.
This is a familiar pattern... It is quite analagous to "send
vendor-specific commands from userspace to a drive"
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-27 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1343407458-29909-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com>
2012-07-27 18:12 ` [PATCH] NVMe: Add a character device for each nvme device 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
2012-07-27 20:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2012-07-27 20:42 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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