[PATCH v2 6/6] cxlflash: Enable device id for future IBM CXL adapter

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Tue Dec 15 14:11:00 AEDT 2015


On 15/12/15 08:07, Uma Krishnan wrote:
> From: Manoj Kumar <manoj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> This drop enables a future card with a device id
> of 0x0600 to be recognized by the cxlflash driver.

If you do a V3 - this could be better worded in the imperative mood as: 
"Add a new device ID (0x0600) for a future IBM CXL Flash Adapter card."

>
> As per the design, the Accelerator Function Unit (AFU)
> for this new IBM CXL Flash Adapter retains the same
> host interface as the previous generation. For the early
> prototypes of the new card, the driver with this change
> behaves exactly as the driver prior to this behaved with
> the earlier generation card. Therefore, no card specific
> programming has been added. These card specific changes
> can be staged in later if needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Assuming that the final card won't break in a particularly nasty way in 
the absence of later code changes, all looks good.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

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