[PATCH 2/3] fine tune the nvme-discover manpage
J Freyensee
james_p_freyensee at linux.intel.com
Thu Oct 13 09:43:17 PDT 2016
On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 12:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:18:05AM -0700, J Freyensee wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > -nvme-discover - Send Get Log Page request to Discovery
> > > Controller.
> > > +nvme-discover - Send Discovery requests to Fabrics Discovery
> > > Controllers.
> >
> > I preferred mentioning "Get Log Page" because that is really what
> > is
> > happening and reflects the NVMe specification, which I was aiming
> > to
> > push the envelope a bit and help educate and accelerate the
> > learning
> > curve for people new to these features (map more accurately what is
> > being described here to the NVMe specification(s).
>
> While Get Log Page is technicaly correct I don't really think it
> serves the user much - it's the way the discovery is implemented,
> the important part is that we perform discovery.
I think it does serve the user, it educates the user a bit faster on
the NVMe Specification and what is really happening without spending
the time sorting through the spec, important for things like debugging
and diagnosis if something wonky happens.
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