[PATCH] nvme: associate stripe size quirk with D4512

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Thu Jul 2 17:48:30 EDT 2020


On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:16:04PM -0600, David Fugate wrote:
> Did hear from our D4512 team there are concerns with this drive
> advertising itself as NVMe 1.2 compliant while also implementing
> aspects of NVMe 1.3 such as NOIOB. Of course the Linux NVMe driver
> does the right thing in terms of ignoring the drive-reported spec
> compliance value in favor of feature detection. Can't be certain
> that's the case with all other OSes and closed-source drivers
> in particular.

I don't understand this concern. If a driver fails to detect a feature,
then they're in the exact same situation as if the controller didn't
implement it.



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