Re: [PATCH v2] Support for write stream IDs

[Jens Axboe]

On 05/05/2015 02:07 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:02:54PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Unless there are any grave concerns here, I'd like to merge this for
> > 4.2.
>
> Without a driver implementing the feature I don't see any reason to even
> consider merging it.

We can't merge the NVMe bits until the proposal is included/finalized. 
But this is a problem. I don't want to add this to the Facebook kernel 
until we know the API is stable, while I have no problem adding 
experimental NVMe changes since those can be easily updated without 
impacting applications. The latter is not true for the user interface.

--
Jens Axboe

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