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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:28 PM Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
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> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
>
> This patch requests the metadata required to issue admin commands, as well
> as some helper functions to construct and check the completion of the
> commands.

What are the admin commands? Any pointer to a spec? Why does Linux
need to support these commands?
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