[PATCH 1/1] nvme: update enumerations for status codes
Chaitanya Kulkarni
Chaitanya.Kulkarni at wdc.com
Thu Jan 21 03:08:58 EST 2021
On 1/20/21 2:03 AM, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> On 1/20/2021 7:09 AM, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>> Max,
>> On 1/4/21 04:59, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
>>> All the updates are mentioned in the ratified NVMe 1.4 spec.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy at nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>> I'm not against keeping the header file up to date with the spec,
>> but should we add the error status into the kernel code even if
>> we are not using it in the host/target driver ?
> I we go with this approach we should remove half of the code inside nvme.h
Yes you are right and I really don't understand the need to add symbols
when they are not used I think I'm also guilty of some :P.
It will be great if someone can clarify the need to add symbols when they
arenot used in the kernel or a use case which needs this sort of update.
>
>> Here we add 24 lines which we have not used at all.
>>> include/linux/nvme.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>> Regarding the nvme-cli this is much needed a sync since it does
>> decode all the errors if I'm not wrong.
> I can sync it in V2.
>
>
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