[PATCH] NVMe: Update namespace and controller identity structures as per 1.1a spec
Matthew Wilcox
willy at linux.intel.com
Wed Apr 23 08:13:04 PDT 2014
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:19:57PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Controller: add CNTLID, AVSCC, APSTA, NVSCC, ACWU, SGLS fields.
>
> Namespace: add NMIC, RESCAP, EUI64 fields. EUI64 is specifically
> interesting, since it can be used to construct an UEFI NVMe device
> path for a boot entry.
>
> As per NVM Express 1.1a spec:
> http://www.nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-1_1a.pdf
Thanks for the patch!
> - __u8 rsvd78[178];
> + __le16 cntlid;
> + __u8 rsvd80[176];
I don't think cntlid is a little-endian value. I think it's a cookie,
so this should be __u16.
> - __u8 rsvd30[98];
> + __u8 nmic;
> + __u8 rescap;
> + __u8 rsvd32[88];
> + __le64 eui64;
eui64 isn't treated as a 64-bit value elsewhere in the kernel, rather as
an array of bytes. So I think this one should be:
__u8 eui64[8];
That matches the IEEE's recommendations:
An EUI-64 is a string of eight octets, labeled as eui[0] through eui[7].
(see http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/eui64.pdf)
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