linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] nd: move nd

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Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:47:10 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Nitesh Narayan Lal <nilal@...hat.com>,
        Kevin Wolf <kwolf@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Zwisler, Ross" <ross.zwisler@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        niteshnarayanlal@...mail.com, lcapitulino@...hat.com,
        Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
        Eric Blake <eblake@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] nd: move nd_region to common header

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 6:31 AM Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> This patch moves nd_region definition to common header
> include/linux/nd.h file. This is required for flush callback
> support for both virtio-pmem & pmem driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 39 ---------------------------------------
>  include/linux/nd.h  | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

No, we need to find a way to do this without dumping all of these
internal details to a public / global header.