[PATCH] NVMe Add Support for Solid State Media Log Page
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Mon Mar 21 07:38:35 PDT 2016
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 02:19:46PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:04:06PM +0000, David Darrington wrote:
> > This was a customer request. I’ll check to see if they are aware that the component will no longer be supported.
>
> "will no longer be supported" is Christoph's idea. I think there are far
> more users of this feature than he realises, and distros will continue
> to enable it. Much as we might want to get rid of it ...
I kept it around as a non-default to not break existing users. But
I don't think we should add new feature to it. I think we should
have a usespace library that application can use instead. Any chance
we could the original Intel code for the translation licensed under
a permissive license for it? It know very similar code it available
under a BSD license for the Windows driver, but it it would take a
while to clean it up..
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