Re: [REVIEW] NVM Express driver

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:41:04PM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> There's a bit of an impedence mismatch there.  Think of this as
> being drive firmware instead of controller firmware.  This isn't for
> request_firmware() kind of uses, it's for some admin tool to come along
> and tell the drive "Oh, here's some new firmware for you".

What some other devices I've seen do for this is expose the firmware
storage as a MTD device.  Dunno if that matches the hardware at all
here, though.
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