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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2015-08-19 00:34:34 -0400 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2015-08-19 00:34:34 -0400 |
| commit | 7a67832c7e44c20935c5d6f2264035a0f7bf0d8f (patch) | |
| tree | 1ace57d407ece741401f7b8878f1b2d85e990004 /Documentation/kbuild | |
| parent | 6ec689542b5bc516187917d49b112847dfb75b0b (diff) | |
libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
We currently register a platform device for e820 type-12 memory and
register a nvdimm bus beneath it. Registering the platform device
triggers the device-core machinery to probe for a driver, but that
search currently comes up empty. Building the nvdimm-bus registration
into the e820_pmem platform device registration in this way forces
libnvdimm to be built-in. Instead, convert the built-in portion of
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY to simply register a platform device and move the
rest of the logic to the driver for e820_pmem, for the following
reasons:
1/ Letting e820_pmem support be a module allows building and testing
libnvdimm.ko changes without rebooting
2/ All the normal policy around modules can be applied to e820_pmem
(unbind to disable and/or blacklisting the module from loading by
default)
3/ Moving the driver to a generic location and converting it to scan
"iomem_resource" rather than "e820.map" means any other architecture can
take advantage of this simple nvdimm resource discovery mechanism by
registering a resource named "Persistent Memory (legacy)"
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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