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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:48:01 -0000 Received: from d06av23.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av23.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.59]) by b06cxnps4076.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id xAINm0M748168994 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:48:00 GMT Received: from d06av23.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A123A4051; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:48:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av23.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24301A4053; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:48:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.au.ibm.com (unknown [9.192.253.14]) by d06av23.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:48:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [10.61.2.125] (haven.au.ibm.com [9.192.254.114]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADE67A012A; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:47:55 +1100 (AEDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] nvdimm: Add driver for OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory To: Dan Williams , Frederic Barrat Cc: "Alastair D'Silva" , alastair@d-silva.org, Oscar Salvador , Michal Hocko , David Hildenbrand , Alexey Kardashevskiy , Wei Yang , Keith Busch , Masahiro Yamada , Paul Mackerras , Ira Weiny , Thomas Gleixner , Pavel Tatashin , Dave Jiang , linux-nvdimm , Vishal Verma , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Mahesh Salgaonkar , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kurz , Nicholas Piggin , Qian Cai , =?UTF-8?Q?C=c3=a9dric_Le_Goater?= , Hari Bathini , David Gibson , Linux MM , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev References: <20191025044721.16617-1-alastair@au1.ibm.com> <20191025044721.16617-9-alastair@au1.ibm.com> <8232c1a6-d52a-6c32-6178-de082174a92a@linux.ibm.com> From: Andrew Donnellan Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:47:56 +1100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19111823-0020-0000-0000-00000389E694 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19111823-0021-0000-0000-000021E00FC5 Message-Id: <02374c9a-39fb-5693-3d9c-aa7e7674a6c1@linux.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.95,18.0.572 definitions=2019-11-18_08:2019-11-15,2019-11-18 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 lowpriorityscore=0 priorityscore=1501 phishscore=0 mlxlogscore=890 suspectscore=0 adultscore=0 mlxscore=0 bulkscore=0 clxscore=1015 spamscore=0 malwarescore=0 impostorscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-1910280000 definitions=main-1911180204 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 15/11/19 3:35 am, Dan Williams wrote: >> Have you discussed with the directory owner if it's ok to split the >> driver over several files? > > My thought is to establish drivers/opencapi/ and move this and the > existing drivers/misc/ocxl/ bits there. Is there any other justification for this we can think of apart from not wanting to put this driver in the nvdimm directory? OpenCAPI drivers aren't really a category of driver unto themselves. -- Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra ajd@linux.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited