linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 04/16] nvme-core: introduce nvme_get_by

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:54:18 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@....com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/16] nvme-core: introduce nvme_get_by_path()



On 2019-07-25 11:50 a.m., Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:23:23AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> nvme_get_by_path() is analagous to blkdev_get_by_path() except it
>> gets a struct nvme_ctrl from the path to its char dev (/dev/nvme0).
>>
>> The purpose of this function is to support NVMe-OF target passthru.
> 
> I can't find anywhere that you use this in this patchset.
> 

Oh sorry, the commit message is out of date the function was actually
called nvme_ctrl_get_by_path() and it's used in Patch 10.

I'll fix the commit message for the next version.

Logan