Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] dax-device: Some cleanups
From: Dan Williams
Date: Tue Feb 16 2021 - 22:49:51 EST
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:29 PM Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I didn't get any feedback for the (implicit) v1 of this series that
> started with Message-Id: 20210127230124.109522-1-uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> but I identified a few improvements myself:
>
> - Use "dax-device" consistently as a prefix
> - Instead of requiring a .remove callback, make it explicitly
> optional. (Drop checking for .remove from former patch 1, introduce
> new patch "Properly handle drivers without remove callback")
> - The new patch about remove being optional allows to simplify one of
> the two dax drivers which is implemented in patch 4
> - Patch 5 got a bit smaller because we now have one driver less with a
> remove callback.
> - Added Andrew to To: as he merged dax drivers in the past.
>
> Andrew: Assuming you consider these patches useful, would you please
> care for merging them?
I've routed device-dax patches through Andrew when they had core-mm
entanglements, but a pure device-dax series like this I can take
through my tree.
One small comment on patch5, otherwise looks good.