Re: [RFC] what's the point of register_filesystem() in drivers/dax/super.c?

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 01:10:26PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 9:24 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >         It's not user-mountable, kern_mount() doesn't care about
> > looking it up by name, so the only effect of having it registered
> > is having it visible in /proc/filesystems.
> >
> >         Do you need that for anything?  Because I would rather
> > avoid more of that voodoo...
> 
> It can die. It was mindless copy/paste from fs/blockdev.c and the
> "bdev" fs. The device-dax unit tests pass just fine with it removed.
> I'll send a formal patch with the following:

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Do you prefer it in your tree, or would you rather have it go through
vfs.git?



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