RE: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 18/20] libnd: infrastructure for btt devices

2015-05-14 Thread Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
bject: Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 18/20] libnd: infrastructure for > btt devices > ... > So we can fix this to be at least as stable as the backing device > names [1], but as far as I can see we would need to start using the > backing device name in the btt device name. A

Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 18/20] libnd: infrastructure for btt devices

2015-05-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Toshi Kani wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 14:25 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: >> Block devices from an nd bus, in addition to accepting "struct bio" >> based requests, also have the capability to perform byte-aligned >> accesses. By default only the bio/block interfa

Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 18/20] libnd: infrastructure for btt devices

2015-05-12 Thread Toshi Kani
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 14:25 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Block devices from an nd bus, in addition to accepting "struct bio" > based requests, also have the capability to perform byte-aligned > accesses. By default only the bio/block interface is used. However, if > another driver can make effect