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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:50:23 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/16] nvme-core: introduce nvme_get_by_path()
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:23:23AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> nvme_get_by_path() is analagous to blkdev_get_by_path() except it
> gets a struct nvme_ctrl from the path to its char dev (/dev/nvme0).
> 
> The purpose of this function is to support NVMe-OF target passthru.

I can't find anywhere that you use this in this patchset.