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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] nvdimm: Add driver for OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory
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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