Re: [PATCH v6 07/18] nvme: Introduce FENCING and FENCED controller states

[Mohamed Khalfella]

On Tue 2026-10-20 15:10:11 +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 02:26:30PM -0700, Mohamed Khalfella wrote:
> >  Description:
> >  		Shows the current state of the controller. Possible values:
> > -		"new", "live", "resetting", "connecting", "deleting",
> > -		"deleting (no IO)", "dead".
> > +		"new", "live", "fencing", "fenced", "resetting", "connecting",
> > +		"deleting", "deleting (no IO)", "dead".
> > 
> >  What:		/sys/class/nvme/nvmeX/numa_node
> >  Date:		November 2018
> > 
> > 
> > How about a diff like the one above? Similar to CIRN and CIU, I am not
> > sure what to put in "KernelVersion".
> 
> I think the KernelVersion is when it first appeared. I would leave it as
> it is and instead extend the description
> 
>   		Shows the current state of the controller. Possible values:
>  		"new", "live", "resetting", "connecting", "deleting",
>  		"deleting (no IO)", "dead".
>         v7.5 introduced additionally:
>         "fencing", "fenced"
> 
> Obviously, this is not idea. If someone starts to complain we might have
> to filter out these two new states.

Is Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-nvme a living history of sysfs-nvme
documentation or a documentation for the specific kernel release?