On 4/13/21 4:52 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Please pick up when convenient. > > This PR officially deprecates the lightnvm subsystem and prepares > it to be removed from kernel 5.15 and onward. > > The lightnvm subsystem has been superseeded by the recently standardized > NVMe Zoned Namespace (ZNS) Command Set specification. Together with other > advancements in NVMe, it is now possible to implement all of the features that > the original OCSSD work introduced. > > Thanks for enabling me to contribute the subsystem. It has been an incredible > journey. While the subsystem itself had not had that many users outside of > academia and initial PoCs, it has been instrumental in gaining > enough mind-share in the industry, which ultimately has allowed ZNS SSDs to > emerge. Thank you! Applied, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
