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[Impact]
Intel Rapid Storage Technology hides NVMe behind AHCI controller, to
provide firmware base "fusion drive", like combining with Intel Optane.

There's a driver to support this but upstream doesn't like it for
reasons like NVMe quirks can't be applied when NVMe are behind AHCI
controller.

So we need to devise a mechanism to ask users to change BIOS storage
settings. This patch only provides a new attribute to let userspace like
distro installer know NVMe is remapped behind AHCI.
 
[Fix]
Add a new attribute to show that how many NVMes are remapped.

[Test]  
After applying the patch, there's a new "remapped_nvme" under the AHCI PCI
device sysfs.

If there's no remapped NVMe:
$ cat remapped_nvme
0
        
If there are two remapped NVMes:
$ cat remapped_nvme
2
 
[Regression Potential]
Low. It adds a new read only sysfs attribute, no actual functional 
change to the AHCI driver.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Add sysfs attribute to show remapped NVMe
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