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From:   Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
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Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:08:43 -0500
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Hi, Dan,

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:

> I'm going to take a look at how hard it would be to develop a kpartx
> fallback in udev. If that can live across the driver transition then
> maybe this can be a non-event for end users that already have that
> udev update deployed.

I just wanted to remind you that label-less dimms still exist, and are
still being shipped.  For those devices, the only way to subdivide the
storage is via partitioning.

-Jeff