From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753336AbcG2VTo (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:19:44 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f180.google.com ([209.85.192.180]:36164 "EHLO mail-pf0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753208AbcG2VTe (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:19:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: remove BLK_DEV_DAX config option To: Ross Zwisler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20160729182314.6368-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton , Dan Williams , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, Dave Hansen From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <990cc01e-12c3-5967-dd28-4a54574828ee@kernel.dk> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:19:28 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160729182314.6368-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/29/2016 12:23 PM, Ross Zwisler wrote: > The functionality for block device DAX was already removed with this > commit: > > commit acc93d30d7d4 ("Revert "block: enable dax for raw block devices"") > > However, we still had a config option hanging around that was always > disabled because it depended on CONFIG_BROKEN. This config option was > introduced in this commit: > > commit 03cdadb04077 ("block: disable block device DAX by default") > > This change reverts that commit, removing the dead config option. This doesn't apply to master, nor for-linus. I hand applied it. -- Jens Axboe