Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:30:17 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] evacuate struct page from the block layer |
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19:07AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > There are two things going on here: > > 1) You want to keep using struct page for now, while there are > subsystems that require it. This is perfectly legitimate. > > 2) Matthew and Dan are changing over some subsystems to no longer > require struct page. This is perfectly legitimate. > > I do not understand why either of you would have to object to what > the other is doing. There is room to keep using struct page until > the rest of the kernel no longer requires it.
*nod*
I'd really like to merge the struct page based pmem driver ASAP. We can then look into work that avoid the need for struct page, and I think Dan is doing some good work in that direction.
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