linux-kernel - Re: [REVIEW] NVM Express driver

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Message-ID: <20110304125239.GE17653@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:52:39 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] NVM Express driver

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:41:04PM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> There's a bit of an impedence mismatch there.  Think of this as
> being drive firmware instead of controller firmware.  This isn't for
> request_firmware() kind of uses, it's for some admin tool to come along
> and tell the drive "Oh, here's some new firmware for you".

What some other devices I've seen do for this is expose the firmware
storage as a MTD device.  Dunno if that matches the hardware at all
here, though.
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