[PATCH] nvme: print out valid arguments when reading from /dev/nvme-fabrics
Chaitanya Kulkarni
chaitanyak at nvidia.com
Tue Nov 23 00:39:44 PST 2021
On 11/19/21 00:39, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Currently applications have a hard time figuring out which
> nvme-over-fabrics arguments are supported for any given kernel;
> the ioctl will return an error code on failure, and the application
> has to guess whether this was due to an invalid argument or due
> to a connection or controller error.
> With this patch applications can read a list of supported
> arguments by simply reading from /dev/nvme-fabrics, allowing
> them to validate the connection string.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
this seems useful and will avoid a trip to the source code.
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch at nvidia.com>
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