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Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:37:43 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Alan Mikhak <alan.mikhak@sifive.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] PCI: endpoint: Add NVMe endpoint function driver
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 09:38:09AM -0800, Alan Mikhak wrote:
> A design goal is to not modify the Linux NVMe target driver
> at all.

As I told you before that is not a "goal" but a fundamental mistake and
against the design philosophy of all major Linux subsystems.  Please fix
your series to move all command parsing to the code based on flags for
fabrics vs PCIe in the few places where they significantly differ.