linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] dax-device: Some cleanups

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Date:   Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:48:39 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@...ine-koenig.org>
Cc:     Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] dax-device: Some cleanups

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:29 PM Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@...ine-koenig.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I didn't get any feedback for the (implicit) v1 of this series that
> started with Message-Id: 20210127230124.109522-1-uwe@...ine-koenig.org,
> 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.