[resend PATCH v2 02/33] dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances

2017-04-17 Thread Dan Williams
We want dax capable drivers to be able to publish a set of dax operations [1]. However, we do not want to further abuse block_devices to advertise these operations. Instead we will attach these operations to a dax device and add a lookup mechanism to go from block device path to a dax device. A dax

[PATCH v2 02/33] dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances

2017-04-14 Thread Dan Williams
We want dax capable drivers to be able to publish a set of dax operations [1]. However, we do not want to further abuse block_devices to advertise these operations. Instead we will attach these operations to a dax device and add a lookup mechanism to go from block device path to a dax device. A dax