[PATCH] nvme: Add 48-bit DMA address quirk

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Feb 3 04:51:48 EST 2021


On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Filippo Sironi wrote:
> Certain NVMe controllers don't support 64-bit DMA addresses.  Instead,
> they are limited to 48-bit DMA addresses.  Let's add a quirk to use them
> properly.

WTF?  This is such a grave NVMe spec compiance bug that I do not think
we should support this buggy mess in Linux.



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