linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v20 11/12] null: Enable trace capability for null block

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Message-ID: <20240603110415.7furv27qlemddzee@nj.shetty@samsung.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 11:04:15 +0000
From: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@...sung.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 11/12] null: Enable trace capability for null block

On 01/06/24 08:23AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 03:50:24PM +0530, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
>> This is a prep patch to enable copy trace capability.
>> At present only zoned null_block is using trace, so we decoupled trace
>> and zoned dependency to make it usable in null_blk driver also.
>
>No need to mention the "prep patch", just state what you are doing.
Acked.
>Any this could just go out to Jens ASAP.
>
There is no user of trace apart from zoned and copy offload.
Hence this would not make sense as separate patch.

Thank you,
Nitesh Shetty