Re: [PATCH] libblkid: add dax capability detection in topology probing

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On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 04:31:45PM +0200, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> The dax (direct access) blockdev capability is exposed via sysfs, add it
> to the list of topology values to be obtained while probing.
> 
> Expose blkid_topology_get_dax() symbol that programs can link against
> for querying the capability.

Do we have any use-case for this change? 

We maintain blkid_topology_* mostly for mkfs-like programs portability 
(years ago we had only ioctls, etc..). You can see that libblkid export
only small subset topology stuff, so why we need DAX there? ;-)

    Karel

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