linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v3 14/27] powerpc/powernv/pmem: Add support for Admin commands

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Message-Id: <50cfd47c4c9da6c6ff674709885a0734f357adc5.camel@au1.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:57:04 +1100
From:   "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 14/27] powerpc/powernv/pmem: Add support for Admin commands

On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 09:01 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:28 PM Alastair D'Silva <
> alastair@....ibm.com> wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>
> > 
> > This patch requests the metadata required to issue admin commands,
> > as well
> > as some helper functions to construct and check the completion of
> > the
> > commands.
> 
> What are the admin commands? Any pointer to a spec? Why does Linux
> need to support these commands?


I'll flesh these out for the next spin, thanks.

-- 
Alastair D'Silva
Open Source Developer
Linux Technology Centre, IBM Australia
mob: 0423 762 819