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diff --git a/Documentation/nvme-id-nvmset.1 b/Documentation/nvme-id-nvmset.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7737a4e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/nvme-id-nvmset.1 @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: nvme-id-nvmset +.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author] +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 01/30/2023 +.\" Manual: NVMe Manual +.\" Source: NVMe +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "NVME\-ID\-NVMSET" "1" "01/30/2023" "NVMe" "NVMe Manual" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +nvme-id-nvmset \- Send NVMe Identify NVM Set List, return result and structure +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +\fInvme id\-nvmset\fR <device> [\-i <id> | \-\-nvmset_id=<id> ] + [\-o <fmt> | \-\-output\-format=<fmt>] +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.sp +For the NVMe device given, sends an identify NVM set list command and provides the result and returned structure\&. +.sp +The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1)\&. +.sp +On success, the structure may be returned in one of several ways depending on the option flags; the structure may be parsed by the program or the raw buffer may be printed to stdout\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +\-i <id>, \-\-nvmset_id=<id> +.RS 4 +This field specifies the identifier of the NVM Set\&. If given, NVM set identifier whose entry is to be in result data will be greater than or equal to this value\&. +.RE +.PP +\-o <format>, \-\-output\-format=<format> +.RS 4 +Set the reporting format to +\fInormal\fR, +\fIjson\fR, or +\fIbinary\fR\&. Only one output format can be used at a time\&. +.RE +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.sp +.RS 4 +.ie n \{\ +\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c +.\} +.el \{\ +.sp -1 +.IP \(bu 2.3 +.\} +Has the program interpret the returned buffer and display the known fields in a human readable format: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +# nvme id\-nvmset /dev/nvme0 +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.RE +.sp +.RS 4 +.ie n \{\ +\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c +.\} +.el \{\ +.sp -1 +.IP \(bu 2.3 +.\} +Have the program return the raw structure in binary: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +# nvme id\-nvmset /dev/nvme0 \-\-output\-format=binary > id_nvmset\&.raw +# nvme id\-nvmset /dev/nvme0 \-o binary > id_nvmset\&.raw +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +It is probably a bad idea to not redirect stdout when using this mode\&. +.RE +.sp +.RS 4 +.ie n \{\ +\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c +.\} +.el \{\ +.sp -1 +.IP \(bu 2.3 +.\} +Alternatively you may want to send the data to another program that can parse the raw buffer\&. +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +# nvme id\-nvmset /dev/nvme0 \-o binary | nvme_parse_id_nvmset +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +The parse program in the above example can be a program that shows the structure in a way you like\&. The following program is such an example that will parse it and can accept the output through a pipe, +\*(Aq|\*(Aq, as shown in the above example, or you can +\*(Aqcat\*(Aq +a saved output buffer to it\&. +.RE +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +NVME +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +Part of the nvme\-user suite |