libnvme questions

[Hannes Reinecke]

Hi Keith,

On 3/10/21 9:48 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 03:14:02PM -0600, Tony Asleson wrote:
>> 1. There is interest in utilizing the libnvme library for some other
>> projects, when is an official release of the library planned?
>>
>> 2. Is it planned for nvme-cli to utilize libnvme?
> 
> This is my bad, I fell behind the task due to mutliple conflicts of
> time, but I am back on this right now. The plan is to tag nvme-cli v1.14
> within the next few weeks, then make the shift to libnvme integration
> on a "2.0" version for future work on the master branch. This would
> coincide with an official libnvme stable release.
> 
> I honestly do not have enough devices to regression test all the
> features, so I will continue to maintain nvme-cli 1.x branches as long
> as necessary while ironing out any integration issues.
>  
Any updates here?
We've got some changes/reworks pending (the nvme monitor stuff, and also
a new configuration file mechanism with using a json config file), and
it would be good to know what would be the appropriate base for all of this.

We could give you a helping hand in moving nvme-cli over to nvmelib if
that's an issue ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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