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From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:33:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/29] dax: simplify the dax_device <-> gendisk association
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 9:58 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 07:33:06PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Is it time to add a "DAX" symbol namespace?
>
> What would be the benefit?

Just the small benefit of identifying DAX core users with a common
grep line, and to indicate that DAX exports are more intertwined than
standalone exports, but yeah those are minor.