On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:41 PM Vishal Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> device-dax based devices were missing a 'resource' attribute to indicate
> the physical address range contributed by the device in question. This
> information is desirable to userspace tooling that may want to use the
> dax device as system-ram, and wants to selectively hotplug and online
> the memory blocks associated with a given device.
>
> Without this, the tooling would have to parse /proc/iomem for the memory
> ranges contributed by dax devices, which can be a workaround, but it is
> far easier to provide this information in the sysfs hierarchy.
>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>

Looks good to me, applied.

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