[PATCH] nfit: add Hyper-V NVDIMM DSM command set to white list

Dexuan Cui decui at microsoft.com
Mon Jan 28 22:58:41 UTC 2019


> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:55 PM
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 1:40 PM Dexuan Cui <decui at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > I made the below simple change. Is this enough? Please suggest the proper
> > wording/sentence, as I'm relatively new to NVDIMM, and I don't really know
> the history of the standardization process.
> 
> How about something a bit more relevant for the code in question:
> 
 
> There are 4 "legacy" NVDIMM command sets
> (NVDIMM_FAMILY_{INTEL,MSFT,HPE1,HPE2}) that were created before an EFI
> working group was established to constrain this proliferation. The
> nfit driver probes for the supported command set by GUID. Note, If
> you're a platform developer looking to add a new command set to this
> probe consider using an existing set, or otherwise seek approval to
> publish the command set at
> http://www.uefi.org/RFIC_LIST

Looks perfect! Let me use this, rebase the patch to 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm.git/tag/?h=libnvdimm-fixes-5.0-rc4
and post a v2 later today.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan


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