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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] ocxl: Conditionally bind SCM devices to the
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 03:47:05PM +1100, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> 
> This patch allows the user to bind OpenCAPI SCM devices to the generic OCXL
> driver.

This completely misses any explanation of why you'd want that.  The
what is rather obvious from the patch.

> +config OCXL_SCM_GENERIC
> +	bool "Treat OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory as a generic OpenCAPI device"
> +	default n

n is the default default.