On 7/17/2022 11:36 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2022, Dave Jiang wrote:
However, the spec leaves a gap WRT master passphrase usages. The spec
does
not define any ways to retrieve the status of if the support of master
passphrase is available for the device, nor does the commands that
utilize
master passphrase will return a specific error that indicates master
passphrase is not supported. If using a device does not support master
passphrase and a command is issued with a master passphrase, the error
message returned by the device will be ambiguos.
In general I think that the 2.0 spec is brief at *best* wrt to these
topics.
Even if a lot is redundant, there should be an explicit equivalent to the
theory of operation found in
https://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface-V1.8.pdf
I totally agree.
Thanks,
Davidlohr
