Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support:

From	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support:
Date	2017-08-08 09:30 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:33:40PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like they can make existing nvme tooling work with little
> > effort if they have the driver implement NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_COMMAND, and
> 
> Precisely, I was thinking on the same line and you clarified. I will
> spend sometime on this and get back to you.

Sounds good. Just note that while the majority of NVMe management should
be reachable with just that IOCTL, some tooling features may not work
correctly since they look for /dev/nvmeX, and I assume this driver will
create /dev/sdX instead.

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Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2017-08-02 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2017-08-03 08:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-05 16:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-08-05 16:50 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com> - 2017-08-07 16:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-08-07 16:20 +0200
          RE: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com> - 2017-08-07 16:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-08-07 17:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2017-08-08 06:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com> - 2017-08-08 09:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2017-08-08 09:30 +0200

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