scsi: mpt3sas: Added support for nvme encapsulated request message.
authorSuganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:32:29 +0000 (18:02 +0530)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:20:52 +0000 (12:20 -0400)
commitaff39e61218f9a6d5cad1b62bd5a75ae8d4f7890
tree828c61e1a38cccce538e1cd06d590bf43860f4c1
parent016d5c35e27824f31c394009dd0f72f2c6b0dc85
scsi: mpt3sas: Added support for nvme encapsulated request message.

* Mpt3sas driver uses the NVMe Encapsulated Request message to send an
  NVMe command to an NVMe device attached to the IOC.

* Normal I/O commands like reads and writes are passed to the
  controller as SCSI commands and the controller has the ability to
  translate the commands to NVMe equivalent.

* This encapsulated NVMe command is used by applications to send
  direct NVMe commands to NVMe drives.

Signed-off-by: Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Suganath Prabu S <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c