On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Linda Knippers <[email protected]> wrote: > As it is today, we can't enable or test new functions in firmware without > changing the kernel. > > With this patch we allow function 0 for the HPE DSM families, > as is already allowed with the MS family. We now only restrict > the functions to the currently documented set if the module parameter > "disable_vendor_specific" is set. Since the module parameter > description says "Limit commands to the publicly specified set", > this approach seems correct. >
My concern is that this makes the kernel less strict by default. Given this is only a test capability lets add a module option to override the default dsm_mask. That would also seem to combine well with the new 'default_dsm_family' option. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
