libnvme questions

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 3/31/21 4:54 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:15:24PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> 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 ...
> 
> Thank you, yes, that would be appreciated. I've ported it a couple
> times, but I keep having to rebase. It's not terribly difficult, but it
> takes a lot of time..
> 
Can you send me your latest attempts?
That should be a good starting point, and probably avoids some work on 
our side ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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