On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:29:12AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:37:14AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: >> >> This is in preparation for removing the ->direct_access() method from >> >> block_device_operations. >> > >> > I don't think mount_bdev has any business knowing about DAX. >> > Just call dax_get_by_host manually from the affected file systems for >> > now, and in the future we can have a pure-DAX mount_dax helper. >> >> Ok, since we already need dax_get_by_host() in the blkdev_writepages() >> path I can sprinkle a few more of those calls and leave mount_bdev >> alone. > > Huh? I thought we stopped using DAX I/O for the block device nodes > a while ago? Oh, yeah, you're right. The blkdev_writepages() call to dax_writeback_mapping_range() is likely leftover dead code. I'll clean it up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
