[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 8/8] dm: ensure only power of 2 zone sizes are allowed

Pankaj Raghav p.raghav at samsung.com
Mon May 30 14:59:52 UTC 2022


On 5/26/22 10:25, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> This series is targeting the first phase where we have stop gap patches
>> and add support to the block and nvme layer and in the next phase we
>> will add a dm linear like target for npo2 zone sizes which can be used
>> by all the filesystems. This patch makes sure that we can't use npo2
>> zoned devices without the proper support that will be added in the next
>> phase in the DM.
> 
> Personally, I do not want to see a kernel version where zone support is broken
> for some devices. So I definitely prefer everything in one go or nothing.
> 
Ok. I will make sure the DM target is a part of the next series along
with the zonefs patch.

Meanwhile, could you review the patches for the block, nvme and null blk
that is already a part of this series? I have made the changes in those
patches as you requested in previous revisions.

Thanks,
Pankaj



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