[PATCH] Move nvme driver source into subdirectory and move pci specifics from core into separate file
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Sat Sep 26 09:11:21 PDT 2015
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:32:36PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > a) move files to a new directory. My suggestion for that would be
> > driver/nvme/host/ as I have a software NVMe controller
> > implementation under development which I'd like to also add under
> > a different subdirectory of drivers/nvme.
>
> What's the "software NVMe controller"? Is it the initiator for NVMe
> over fabrics?
It's a software implementation of the NVMe subsystem and controller
interface. It could be frontended by a future fabrics implementation,
a virtio-nvme implementation, a nvme-loop implementation or with some
additional work maybe even a Linux-based PCIe target device.
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