Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] nvme/scsi: Remove power management support

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Sep 16 2016 - 04:33:49 EST


On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:24:19PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there is basically nothing correct about this
> code. It misinterprets npss (off-by-one). It hardcodes a bunch of
> power states, which is nonsense, because they're all just indices
> into a table that software needs to parse. It completely ignores
> the distinction between operational and non-operational states.
> And, until 4.8, if all of the above magically succeeded, it would
> dereference a NULL pointer and OOPS.
>
> Since this code appears to be useless, just delete it.

Yes, please!

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>