From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] NVM Express driver
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:52:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110304125239.GE17653@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303214104.GZ3663@linux.intel.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 20:47 Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-03 21:13 ` Greg KH
2011-03-03 21:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-03 21:51 ` Greg KH
2011-03-03 22:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-03 22:22 ` Greg KH
2011-03-04 2:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-03-04 9:02 ` el es
2011-03-04 21:29 ` Greg KH
2011-03-04 12:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-04 21:28 ` Greg KH
2011-03-04 21:59 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-04 22:10 ` Greg KH
2011-03-04 22:33 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-04 23:10 ` Greg KH
2011-03-05 10:28 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-04 12:52 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-03-03 21:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-04 13:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-04 14:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-11 22:29 ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-12 5:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-13 17:14 ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-13 18:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
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