Re: [PATCH] NVMe: Added another device ID with stripe quirk

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 06 2017 - 19:23:05 EST


On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:39:56PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> That's true for all Intel controllers going forward, but this
> is actually an older controller that pre-dates NOIOB. It's the exact
> same as the 8086:0A54 model, but a particular vendor decided their
> rebranded device needs to be made special with a different DID.

Meh..

>
> We all agree that's a terrible way to go about this for mutliple reasons,
> but we can't go back in time to tell the decision makers of this folly. So
> I think we need to let this last one go through with the quirk.
>
> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>

Reluctantly-accepted-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>