[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: ata: ahci: Add sysfs attribute to show remapped NVMe device count

[Kai-Heng Feng]

Hi Seth,

> On Feb 20, 2020, at 21:28, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 01:59:26PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 20, 2020, at 00:17, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:10:31PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
>>>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863621
>>>> 
>>>> Add a new sysfs attribute to show how many NVMe devices are remapped.
>>>> 
>>>> Userspace like distro installer can use this info to ask user to change
>>>> the BIOS setting.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
>>> 
>>> We should be cautious about adding new usespace interfaces which are not
>>> upstream. Have you tried sending this patch upstream?
>> 
>> Here's the link:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/7/169
>> 
>>> If so, what was
>>> the response?
>> 
>> Currently no response. Just pinged them.
> 
> Thanks, let's hold off for a little longer and see if you get a
> response.

Seems like linux-ide mailing list and its maintainers are a little dormant recently.

Can we merge this patch to Ubuntu kernel due to the silence?

Kai-Heng