Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] evacuate struct page from the block layer

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19:07AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> There are two things going on here:
> 
> 1) You want to keep using struct page for now, while there are
>    subsystems that require it. This is perfectly legitimate.
> 
> 2) Matthew and Dan are changing over some subsystems to no longer
>    require struct page. This is perfectly legitimate.
> 
> I do not understand why either of you would have to object to what
> the other is doing. There is room to keep using struct page until
> the rest of the kernel no longer requires it.

*nod*

I'd really like to merge the struct page based pmem driver ASAP.  We can
then look into work that avoid the need for struct page, and I think Dan
is doing some good work in that direction.
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