Re: [PATCH 0/2] nvme: Add kernel API for admin command

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 01:16:08PM +0200, Robert Baldyga wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patchset adds two functions providing kernel to kernel API
> for submiting NVMe admin commands. This is for use of NVMe-aware
> block device drivers stacking on top of NVMe drives. An example of
> such driver is Open CAS Linux [1] which uses NVMe extended LBA
> formats and thus needs to issue commands like nvme_admin_identify.

We never add functionality for out of tree crap.  And this shit really
is a bunch of crap, so it is unlikely to ever be merged. 

Why can't intel sometimes actually do something useful for a change
instead of piling junk over junk?