From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Kani, Toshimitsu" To: "dan.j.williams@intel.com" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "hch@lst.de" , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , "x86@kernel.org" , "mawilcox@microsoft.com" , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "Knippers, Linda" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "jack@suse.cz" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 12/16] libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 01:17:45 +0000 Message-ID: <1499303324.2042.7.camel@hpe.com> References: <149875877608.10031.17813337234536358002.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <149875884190.10031.6179599135820559644.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <595552F5.5040008@hpe.com> <59556E37.80808@hpe.com> <595580A6.9000004@hpe.com> <595589CF.5010605@hpe.com> <1499297819.2042.5.camel@hpe.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 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