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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/38] cxlflash: Introduce OpenCXL backend
From: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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> On Feb 22, 2018, at 10:28 PM, Andrew Donnellan =
<andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 23/02/18 09:22, Uma Krishnan wrote:
>> Add initial infrastructure to support a new cxlflash transport, =
OpenCXL.
>> Claim a dependency on OpenCXL (OCXL) and add a new file, ocxl_hw.c, =
which
>> will host the backend routines that are specific to OpenCXL.
>> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>=20
> Is it necessary to depend on OCXL in all cases? IMHO it should be =
possible to build a cxl-only version without ocxl, though I don't feel =
very strongly on this.

I thought through this and did not feel it is necessary to distinguish =
right now. I will look at adding this in the future. Thanks Andrew !=