Re: [PATCHv8 0/5] Driver for new "VMD" device

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 26 2016 - 11:46:16 EST


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 02:43:08PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I saw responses from Keith and Bryan, and I hope they answer your
> questions. As far as I can tell, the VMD driver is grossly similar to
> other host bridge drivers we've already merged, and I don't think we
> have public specs for all of them.
>
> Unless you have further concerns, I'm going to ask Linus to pull this
> tomorrow, along with the rest of the PCI changes for v4.5.

I still think it's a bad idea to merge something odd like this without
a good explanation or showing what devices can actually sit under it.

But you're the maintainer in the end..