Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 08:34:18 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, axboe@kernel.dk, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
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        linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, jmoyer@redhat.com,
        linux-api@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/21] libnvdimm: control (ioctl) messages for
	libnvdimm bus and dimm devices
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 08:14:35PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Most discovery/configuration of the libnvdimm-subsystem is done via
> sysfs attributes.  However, some libnvdimm buses, particularly the
> ACPI.NFIT bus, define a small set of messages that can be passed to the
> platform.  For convenience we derive the initial libnvdimm-ioctl command
> formats directly from the NFIT DSM Interface Example formats.

Why not merge these into the extensive sysfs interface?
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