On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 09:11:35AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 09:24:20PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > The Intel NVDIMM command specification publishes a dirty-shutdown-count
> > in addition to the dirty-shutdown / flush-failed indication that comes
> > from the ACPI NFIT. This is expected to be a common property of NVDIMMs
> > and is a static hardware health detail to be cached / exported via
> > sysfs.
> > 
> > Add plumbing for retrieving this data at driver load time, publish the
> > count, and use the dynamically retrieved dirty-shutdown indicator to
> > augment the existing 'flush_failed' flag.
> 
> Is this the same thing as the LSS Latch stuff that went into ndctl?

On a related note, the ndctl latch implementation doesn't satisfy all
the needs, so I expect it'll be reverted

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