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Authored by jhb on Feb 1 2021, 11:32 PM.
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If a disk's SIM doesn't support polling, then it can't be used to
store crashdumps. Leave d_dump NULL in that case so that dumpon(8)
fails gracefully rather than having dumps fail at crash time.

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I'm happy with this, but all nvme SIMs support polling... But the change isn't wrong, we'll just never fail to take the if into setting d_dump.

sys/cam/nvme/nvme_da.c
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All nvme sims support polling...

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 1 2021, 11:35 PM