linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dax: kill uml support

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:53:20 -0700
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax: kill uml support

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 05:37:40PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> The lack of common transparent-huge-page helpers for UML is becoming
> increasingly painful for fs/dax.c now that it is growing more pmd
> functionality. Add UML to the list of unsupported architectures, and
> clean up no-longer-necessary ifdef as a result.
> 
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>

Sure, this is fine, assuming UML was the only problem architecture.  I've
pushed this code to my kernel.org tree and should hopefully hear back from
0day shortly.