[PATCH] NVMe: Add reset controller sysfs entry

Jens Axboe axboe at fb.com
Thu Jun 4 13:00:30 PDT 2015


On 06/04/2015 09:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:26:03PM +0000, Keith Busch wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Brandon Schulz wrote:
>>> Do you plan to merge this into your legacy tree somewhere that we can
>>> reference in Bugzillas/etc. with the Linux distro vendors?
>>
>> There is a strong preference with vendors to see fixes upstream prior
>> to backporting but this is a long-standing percieved weakness in Linux
>> vs. other operating systems; no one wants to reboot their machine for
>> a f/w upgrade ... so, okay, I'll apply it to legacy and see if I can
>> lobby OSVs to take out-of-stream fixes.
>
> Eww.  Jens, can you please just apply this patch so that we're not
> having such a mess?

Yeah, I'll apply it now for 4.2.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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