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On 5/20/22 19:18, David Sterba wrote:
>> I see that many people in the community feel it is better to target the
>> dm layer for the initial support of npo2 devices. I can give it a shot
>> and maintain a native out-of-tree support for FSs for npo2 devices and
>> merge it upstream as we see fit later.
> 
> Some of the changes from your patchset are cleanups or abstracting the
> alignment and zone calculations, so this can be merged to minimize the
> out of tree code.
Sounds good. I will send it separately. Thanks.