[PATCH 7/7] nvme: Send change uevent when AEN completes

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Jul 14 05:54:50 PDT 2017


On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 09:50:20AM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> We were planning to implement this here on LTC, and some ideas in
> discussion is whether such tool could be integrated to nvme-cli, like a
> "nvmed" tool, a daemon to handle the events. Advantages of the daemon
> are possible implementation of RAS features like trigger actions based
> on adapter's error, etc.

Don't uevent call a binary each time?  Either way nvme-cli is the right
place for it.

> Do you think this kind of tool is interesting? Suggestions on this topic
> are greatly appreciated. One of our concerns is that AEN events still
> need to be enabled by the user, not all events are enabled by default.
> One such tool would allow friendly configuration on which events user
> wants to enable.

Yes, AERs generally are opt-in.



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