On Feb 5 01:35, Keith Busch wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 10:52:06AM +0100, Klaus Jensen wrote: > > There are two reasons for changing this: > > > > 1. The nvme device currently uses an internal Intel device id. > > > > 2. Since commits "nvme: fix write zeroes offset and count" and "nvme: > > support multiple namespaces" the controller device no longer has > > the quirks that the Linux kernel think it has. > > > > As the quirks are applied based on pci vendor and device id, change > > them to get rid of the quirks. > > > > To keep backward compatibility, add a new 'x-use-intel-id' parameter to > > the nvme device to force use of the Intel vendor and device id. This is > > off by default but add a compat property to set this for machines 4.2 > > and older. > > > > Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jen...@samsung.com> > > Yay, thank you for following through on getting this identifier assigned. > > Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbu...@kernel.org>
This is technically not "officially" sanctioned yet, but I got an indication from Gerd that we are good to proceed with this.
