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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] cxlflash: Updated date of the driver
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
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From: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On 12/10/2015 6:35 PM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Hi Uma,
>
> It looks like CXLFLASH_DRIVER_DATE is only used once, on init, and it's
> just printed. Is it necessary? It looks like having it will require
> sending a patch to update it quite often.
>

Hi Daniel,

Valid point. I will pull this out from the code. This should be included
in the second version of the patch series.

Thanks,
Uma Krishnan