Re: [PATCH 02/15] libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices

Christoph Hellwig
2015-06-24T12:10:49Z

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:19:57AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> That tie was only to enable autodetect so that we don't need to run a
> BTT assembly step from an initramfs just to get an NVDIMM up and
> running. It was a convenience, not a requirement.

It's a very deep tying for that feature. Look at what the raid code
does just for scanning. Although even that is officially deprecate
because people don't like in-kernel scanning (which I tend to disagree with).