[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] dm: allow device-mapper to operate without dax support

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Mon Jan 8 16:08:38 UTC 2018


On Wed, Nov 29 2017 at  2:00pm -0500,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com> wrote:

> Change device-mapper's DAX dependency to require the presence of at
> least one DAX_DRIVER. This allows device-mapper to be built without
> bringing the DAX core along which is especially wasteful when there are
> no DAX drivers, like BLK_DEV_PMEM, configured.
> 
> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche at wdc.com>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>




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