[PATCH] NVMe: User initiated rescan

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:23:30PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> This provides user ioctl and sysfs methods that can be used to request
> the driver rescan a controller and its namespaces. This is less harsh
> than doing a controller reset, which temporarily halts all IO just to
> surface a newly attached namespace.
> 
> This is mainly useful for controllers that implement namespace management,
> but do not support the namespace notify change asynchronous event
> notification.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn at suse.de>

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