libnvme questions

[Keith Busch]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 06:08:06PM +0530, Padmakar Kalghatgi wrote:
> Since most of the companies who develop SSDs, use MI(sideband) channel, we think this will be a good enhancement to the existing functionality which the nvme-cli provides.

Can we even use this from a Linux host? I thought the sideband channel
was typically connected to the baseboard management controller.