Adding IOCTL for NVMe controller reset

Gu, Jerry jeg at amazon.com
Thu Sep 24 14:27:09 PDT 2015


Hi Keith,

   Thanks for your prompt response.  
   Is all the latest development happening on kernel.org now? Git.infradead.org is no longer used?

Thanks a lot,
Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Busch, Keith [mailto:keith.busch at intel.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:00 PM
To: Gu, Jerry; linux-nvme at lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: Adding IOCTL for NVMe controller reset

> I was wondering what's the latest about adding an IOCTL to reset NVMe 
> controller as described in this thread:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2015-March/001611.html
> Is there a patch available yet?
> 
> This is very useful to finish a firmware upgrade without power-cycling 
> the host on some old kernel where the sysfs method doesn't work.

Yep, it's been committed upstream:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4cc06521ee1f153e0d292413a5bff7bbbdee92d0




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