nvme-cli spdk plugin

[Sagi Grimberg]

On 17/04/2024 11:33, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> There is a PR [1] pending, adding a spdk plugin for nvme-cli. The
> problem this new plugin tries to solve is, that with the recent change
> to use sysfs only for discovering the nvme subystem, nvme-cli
> lost support for spdk.
>
> My question is, should we have a special plugin for 'list' and
> 'list-subsystem' or should we try to get this somehow integrated into
> the existing code? So that 'list' just works?
>
> Obviously, it would be nice if we could discover the spdk devices via
> sysfs.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli/pull/2295

Can spdk emulate the way nvme devices expose themselves but in different 
path prefix?

something like:
/opt/spdk/dev/
/opt/spdk/sys/

That would make it completely transparent to nvme-cli/libnvme that can 
look for
these paths as a fallback or even in addition?