Re: [PATCH 08/10] nvdimm: Add driver for OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Nov 14 2019 - 11:35:18 EST


Some quick feedback on your intro concerns...

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 5:41 AM Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Alastair,
>
> The patch is huge and could/should probably be split in smaller pieces

Yeah, it's a must. Split the minimum viable infrastructure by topic
and then follow on with per-feature topic patches.

> to ease the review. However, having sinned on that same topic in the
> past, I made a first pass anyway. I haven't covered everything but tried
> to focus on the general setup of the driver for now.
> Since the patch is very long, I'm writing all the comments in one chunk
> here instead of spreading them over a few thousand lines, where some
> would be easy to miss.
>
>
> Update MAINTAINERS for the new files
>
> Have you discussed with the directory owner if it's ok to split the
> driver over several files?

My thought is to establish drivers/opencapi/ and move this and the
existing drivers/misc/ocxl/ bits there.