Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm/hotplug: export try_online_node

From: Alastair D'Silva
Date: Mon Jun 17 2019 - 03:10:44 EST


On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 08:59 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:36:31PM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If an external driver module supplies physical memory and needs to
> > expose
>
> Why would you ever want to allow a module to do such a thing?
>

I'm working on a driver for Storage Class Memory, connected via an
OpenCAPI link.

The memory is only usable once the card says it's OK to access it.

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