From: "Matias Bjørling" <m@bjorling.me>
To: Wenwei Tao <ww.tao0320@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] lightnvm: check mm before use
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:51:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5661622B.5030502@bjorling.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACygaLBgQbm_dth3aSZs=5dp8N+7t7jpWF+1ufEY9NCnFY5G-A@mail.gmail.com>
> Is there any chance core can initialize IOs on device without register
> with a media manger ?
> In my understanding core cannot create target on device without a
> media manger, if core doesn't have a target how can core initialize
> IOs on these devices? If I'm wrong about this, please correct me.
>
You're right. This is preparation patches for system blocks. The core
gets features added to work with the device, before gennvm is
initialized. For that case, no media manager will have been initialized,
and we therefore can't call it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-02 12:16 [PATCH RFC 1/3] lightnvm: check mm before use Matias Bjørling
2015-12-02 12:16 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] lightnvm: comments on constants Matias Bjørling
2015-12-02 12:16 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] lightnvm: fix media mgr registration Matias Bjørling
2015-12-04 8:40 ` Wenwei Tao
2015-12-04 10:46 ` Matias Bjørling
2015-12-04 8:02 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] lightnvm: check mm before use Wenwei Tao
2015-12-04 9:51 ` Matias Bjørling [this message]
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