[PATCH 0/1] nvme: Export CSTS register via sysfs

[Alan Adamson]

> On Mar 17, 2021, at 9:38 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:46:14PM -0400, Alan Adamson wrote:
>> This patch exports the NVMe Controller CSTS register via sysfs.  This
>> feature can be used by userland executables that accessed CSTS and
>> possibly other registers by mapping them into user space.  Since this ability
>> may not always available, exporting certain registers via sysfs provides
>> a safe/read-only way to access registers from outside the kernel.
> 
> So what is this application doings with it?  Should we just have a
> ready attribute instead of exporting a raw register encoding?


Was using nvme-cli show-regs to manage nvme devices. This is no longer an option.

Alan