Hi Dan, this series cleans up and simplifies the association between DAX and block devices in preparation of allowing to mount file systems directly on DAX devices without a detour through block devices. Diffstat: drivers/dax/Kconfig | 4 drivers/dax/bus.c | 2 drivers/dax/super.c | 220 +++++-------------------------------------- drivers/md/dm-linear.c | 51 +++------ drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c | 44 +++----- drivers/md/dm-stripe.c | 65 +++--------- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 22 ++-- drivers/md/dm-writecache.c | 2 drivers/md/dm.c | 29 ----- drivers/md/dm.h | 4 drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig | 2 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 9 - drivers/s390/block/Kconfig | 2 drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c | 12 +- fs/dax.c | 13 ++ fs/erofs/super.c | 11 +- fs/ext2/super.c | 6 - fs/ext4/super.c | 9 + fs/fuse/Kconfig | 2 fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 2 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 54 +++++----- include/linux/dax.h | 30 ++--- 22 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 410 deletions(-) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel