Re: [PATCH 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider

[Bart Van Assche]

On 3/21/24 13:22, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 12:44:19PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > Why to add this functionality to the block layer instead of somewhere
> > in the drivers/ directory?
>
> Simply because we need notifications about appearing and disappearing
> block devices, or a way to iterate over all block devices in a system.
> For both there isn't currently any other interface than using a
> class_interface for that, and that requires access to &block_class
> which is considered a block subsystem internal.

That's an argument for adding an interface to the block layer that
implements this functionality but not for adding this code in the block
layer.

Thanks,

Bart.