* [PATCH] doc: Remove misleading reference to brd in dax.rst
@ 2025-06-09 23:37 ` Daniel Palmer via B4 Relay
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From: Daniel Palmer @ 2025-06-09 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Dan Williams; +Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, Daniel Palmer
brd hasn't supported DAX for a long time but dax.rst
still suggests it as an example of how to write a DAX
supporting block driver.
Remove the reference, confuse less people.
Fixes: 7a862fbbdec6 ("brd: remove dax support")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
index 08dd5e254cc5..5b283f3d1eb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to
implement direct_access.
These block devices may be used for inspiration:
-- brd: RAM backed block device driver
- pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver
---
base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
change-id: 20250610-fixdasrstbrd20250610-074d8ed5623d
Best regards,
--
Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
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From: Daniel Palmer via B4 Relay @ 2025-06-09 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Dan Williams; +Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, Daniel Palmer
From: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
brd hasn't supported DAX for a long time but dax.rst
still suggests it as an example of how to write a DAX
supporting block driver.
Remove the reference, confuse less people.
Fixes: 7a862fbbdec6 ("brd: remove dax support")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
index 08dd5e254cc5..5b283f3d1eb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to
implement direct_access.
These block devices may be used for inspiration:
-- brd: RAM backed block device driver
- pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver
---
base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
change-id: 20250610-fixdasrstbrd20250610-074d8ed5623d
Best regards,
--
Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
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2025-06-09 23:37 ` Daniel Palmer via B4 Relay
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@ 2025-06-25 18:49 ` Jonathan Corbet
-1 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2025-06-25 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Palmer via B4 Relay, Dan Williams
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, Daniel Palmer
Daniel Palmer via B4 Relay <devnull+daniel.palmer.sony.com@kernel.org>
writes:
> From: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
>
> brd hasn't supported DAX for a long time but dax.rst
> still suggests it as an example of how to write a DAX
> supporting block driver.
>
> Remove the reference, confuse less people.
>
> Fixes: 7a862fbbdec6 ("brd: remove dax support")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
> index 08dd5e254cc5..5b283f3d1eb1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
> @@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to
> implement direct_access.
>
> These block devices may be used for inspiration:
> -- brd: RAM backed block device driver
> - pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver
Applied, thanks.
jon
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