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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/12] dm: Treat alloc_dax() -EOPNOTSUPP failure as
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On 2024-02-08 16:34, Dan Williams wrote:
[...]
> Similar feedback as the pmem change, lets not propagate the mistake that
> alloc_dax() could return NULL, none of the callers of alloc_dax()
> properly handled NULL and it was just luck that none of the use cases
> tried to use alloc_dax() in the CONFIG_DAX=n case.

Done.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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