2020-09-24 19:04:46

by Dan Williams

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] memremap: rename MEMORY_DEVICE_DEVDAX to MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:33 AM Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is in preparation for the logic behind MEMORY_DEVICE_DEVDAX also
> being used by non DAX devices.
>

FWIW I would not call this MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC. This is really
MEMORY_DEVICE_SIMPLE and the kernel-doc can clarify in contrast to the
other MEMORY_DEVICE types this type implies no need for driver or
filesystem notification when a page goes idle.