Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nvme-apple: Reset controller during shutdown

[Christoph Hellwig]

Folks, can you chime in if this comment makes sense?  I'd really
like to send the patches off to Jens before rc5.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 06:24:50AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 07:25:00PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Always reset the NVMe controller on shutdown. The reset is
> > +		 * required to shutdown the co-processor cleanly.
> > +		 */
> 
> Hmm.  This comment doesn't seem to match the discussion we had last
> week.  Which would be:
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * NVMe requires a reset before setting up a controller to
> 		 * ensure it is in a clean state.  For NVMe PCIe this is
> 		 * done in the setup path to be able to deal with controllers
> 		 * in any kind of state.  For for Apple devices, the firmware
> 		 * will not be available at that time and the reset will
> 		 * time out.  Thus reset after shutting the NVMe controller
> 		 * down and before shutting the firmware down.
> 		 */
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