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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:52:36 -0700
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
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.
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