[PATCH v3] nvme: enable FDP support

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Jul 2 08:51:20 PDT 2024


On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 09:49:35AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I'm with Keith on this one - there's no real maintenance burden to bear
> for this feature, it's pretty well contained. There's no point gate
> keeping it based on changing the spec, as that will take a long time to
> get done. And there's no reason to hold this back until this happens
> based on mostly ideological reasons, when there are actual users that
> could use it now. What do we have to lose?

What we do is a misuse of the spec intentionally designed to not
accomodate us.  I'm dead-set against this.  Please all help getting
the proper interface in.  I worked with folks on the SCSI side and
we finally got it (although with a few warts).

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