Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] device-dax: Support sub-dividing soft-reserved ranges

From: Dan Williams
Date: Tue Sep 22 2020 - 20:43:17 EST


On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:46 AM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22.08.20 01:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:53:57 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>> I think I am missing some important pieces. Bear with me.
> >>
> >> No worries, also bear with me, I'm going to be offline intermittently
> >> until at least mid-September. Hopefully Joao and/or Vishal can jump in
> >> on this discussion.
> >
> > Ordinarily I'd prefer a refresh&resend for 2+ week-old series such as
> > this.
> >
> > But given that v4 all applies OK and that Dan has pending outages, I'll
> > scoop up this version, even though at least one change has been suggested.
> >
>
> Should I try to fix patch #11 while Dan is away? Because I think at
> least two things in there are wrong (and it would have been better to
> split that patch into reviewable pieces).

Hey David,

Back now, I'll take a look. I didn't immediately see a way to
meaningfully break up that patch without some dead-code steps in the
conversion, but I'll take another run at it.