From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manoj Kumar Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cxlflash: Shutdown notify support for CXL Flash cards Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:46:14 -0500 Message-ID: <5763FF26.2060800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1466034460-17797-1-git-send-email-ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1466034597-17950-1-git-send-email-ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:19559 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbcFQNpi (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:45:38 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u5HDhwGT080718 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:45:38 -0400 Received: from e19.ny.us.ibm.com (e19.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.209]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 23kr62r68c-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:45:38 -0400 Received: from localhost by e19.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:45:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1466034597-17950-1-git-send-email-ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Uma Krishnan , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley , "Martin K. Petersen" , "Matthew R. Ochs" Cc: Brian King , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Ian Munsie , Andrew Donnellan , Frederic Barrat , Christophe Lombard On 6/15/2016 6:49 PM, Uma Krishnan wrote: > Some CXL Flash cards need notification of device shutdown > in order to flush pending I/Os. > > A PCI notification hook for shutdown has been added where > the driver notifies the card and returns. When the device > is removed in the PCI remove path, notification code will > wait for shutdown processing to complete. > > Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar