linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/26] cxl/core: Separate region mode from decoder mode

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:18:38 -0700
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To: ira.weiny@...el.com
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>, Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>, 
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Navneet Singh <navneet.singh@...el.com>, 
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>, 
	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/26] cxl/core: Separate region mode from decoder mode

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024, ira.weiny@...el.com wrote:

>From: Navneet Singh <navneet.singh@...el.com>
>
>Until now region modes and decoder modes were equivalent in that they
>were either PMEM or RAM.  With the upcoming addition of Dynamic Capacity
>regions (which will represent an array of device regions [better named
>partitions] the index of which could be different on different
>interleaved devices), the mode of an endpoint decoder and a region will
>no longer be equivalent.
>
>Define a new region mode enumeration and adjust the code for it.

Could this could also be picked up regardless of dcd?

Thanks,
Davidlohr