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On 2/4/20 4:43 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Ah, got it, you only ended up at wanting namespace labels because
> there was no other way to carve up device-dax. That's changing as part
> of the efi_fake_mem= enabling and I have a patch set in the works to
> allow discontiguous sub-divisions of a device-dax range. Note that is
> this branch rebases frequently:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/log/?h=libnvdimm-pending

Cool, thanks.  I'll check it out!

Barret