[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 0/2] dax, dm: stop requiring dax for device-mapper

[Mike Snitzer]

On Sun, Jan 07 2018 at  3:31pm -0500,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 29 2017 at  1:59pm -0500,
> > Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Changes since v5 [1]:
> >> * Make DAX_DRIVER select DAX to simplify the Kconfig dependencies
> >>   (Michael)
> >> * Rebase on 4.15-rc1 and add new IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER) checks in
> >>   drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c.
> >>
> >> [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-September/012569.html
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Hi Mike,
> >>
> >> Bart points out that the DAX core is unconditionally enabled if
> >> device-mapper is enabled. Add some config machinery and some
> >> stub/static-inline routines to allow dax infrastructure to be deleted
> >> from device-mapper at compile time.
> >
> > Hey Dan,
> >
> > Did you want me to pick this up for 4.16 or were you thinking of sending
> > the changes through a different tree?
> >
> > I'm fine with picking these up so long as you don't expect the dax.h and
> > Kconfig changes to become a source of conflict come merge time.
> 
> There might be some more collisions as we are going to kill the DAX
> support in axonram and dcssblk. If I get your reviewed-by on these
> I'll take them through the nvdimm tree.

OK, I've dropped these and will respond with my Reviewed-by:s.

Thanks.