linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/10] nvdimm: Add driver for OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4g9b6PyREurH9NcQf4BO2YcRGJPBZDqGKy-Vz91mBKjew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:35:04 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>, alastair@...ilva.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] nvdimm: Add driver for OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory

Some quick feedback on your intro concerns...

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 5:41 AM Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alastair,
>
> The patch is huge and could/should probably be split in smaller pieces

Yeah, it's a must. Split the minimum viable infrastructure by topic
and then follow on with per-feature topic patches.

> to ease the review. However, having sinned on that same topic in the
> past, I made a first pass anyway. I haven't covered everything but tried
> to focus on the general setup of the driver for now.
> Since the patch is very long, I'm writing all the comments in one chunk
> here instead of spreading them over a few thousand lines, where some
> would be easy to miss.
>
>
> Update MAINTAINERS for the new files
>
> Have you discussed with the directory owner if it's ok to split the
> driver over several files?

My thought is to establish drivers/opencapi/ and move this and the
existing drivers/misc/ocxl/ bits there.