Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] nvme power saving

[Keith Busch]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:33:36PM -0700, J Freyensee wrote:
> ...and some SSDs don't even support this feature yet, so the number of
> different NVMe devices available to test initially will most likely be
> small (like the Fultondales I have, all I could check is to see if the
> code broke anything if the device did not have this power-save
> feature).
> 
> I agree with Jens, makes a lot of sense to start with this feature
> 'off'.
> 
> To 'advertise' the feature, maybe make the feature a new selection in
> Kconfig?  Example, initially make it "EXPERIMENTAL", and later when
> more devices implement this feature it can be integrated more tightly
> into the NVMe solution and default to on.

Should we just leave the kernel out of this then? I bet we could script
this feature in user space.