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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Subject: decouple DAX from block devices
Date:   Tue,  9 Nov 2021 09:32:40 +0100
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Hi Dan,

this series decouples the DAX from the block layer so that the
block_device is not needed at all for the DAX I/O path.