On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 08:24:51PM +0100, javier@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Javier González <javier.gonz@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Create a char device per NVMe namespace. This char device is always > initialized, independently of whether the features implemented by the > device are supported by the kernel. User-space can therefore always > issue IOCTLs to the NVMe driver using the char device. > > The char device is presented as /dev/nvme-generic-XcYnZ. This naming > scheme follows the convention of the hidden device (nvmeXcYnZ). Support > for multipath will follow. Do we perhaps want to put these new character devices inside a subdir? e.g. /dev/nvme/nvme-generic-XcYnZ ? Otherwise it feels like doing such a simple thing as ls -al /dev/nvme* will show a lot of devices because of these new specialized char devices. Kind regards, Niklas
