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Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru.

From Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru.
Date 2015-11-10 19:10 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> writes:
>
>> Add IOCTL type 'P' to denote NVDIMM_TYPE_PASSTHRU.
>
> Can't you just make passthrough a separate command?  If you actually add
> the ioctl definition for passthrough (which you didn't do for some
> reason?), it looks odd:
>
> #define ND_IOCTL_PASSTHRU        _IOWR(NVDIMM_TYPE_PASSTHRU,, ND_CMD_PASSTHRU, \
>                                  struct ndn_package)
>
> Care to comment on why you chose a different type instead of specifying
> a new command?

+1 for making this just a new command number without a new top-level
number space.
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[PATCH 0/4] nvdimm: Add an IOCTL pass thru for DSM calls Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> - 2015-11-06 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> - 2015-11-06 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2015-11-10 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-11-10 19:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> - 2015-11-10 20:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2015-11-10 21:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> - 2015-11-11 01:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-11-11 01:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2015-11-11 16:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-11-10 21:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com> - 2015-11-10 22:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-11-10 23:30 +0100
    RE: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@hpe.com> - 2015-11-10 20:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] nvdimm: Add wrapper for IOCTL pass thru. Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> - 2015-11-10 22:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/4] nvdimm: Add an IOCTL pass thru for DSM calls Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2015-11-10 16:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/4] nvdimm: Add an IOCTL pass thru for DSM calls Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> - 2015-11-10 22:40 +0100

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