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V" , "Oliver O'Halloran" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Frederic Barrat , Andrew Donnellan , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Vishal Verma , Dave Jiang , Ira Weiny , Andrew Morton , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "David S. Miller" , Rob Herring , Anton Blanchard , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Mahesh Salgaonkar , Madhavan Srinivasan , =?UTF-8?Q?C=C3=A9dric_Le_Goater?= , Anju T Sudhakar , Hari Bathini , Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kurz , Nicholas Piggin , Masahiro Yamada , Alexey Kardashevskiy , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linuxppc-dev , linux-nvdimm , Linux MM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:28 PM Alastair D'Silva wrote: > > From: Alastair D'Silva > > This patch requests the metadata required to issue admin commands, as well > as some helper functions to construct and check the completion of the > commands. What are the admin commands? Any pointer to a spec? Why does Linux need to support these commands?