[PATCH 04/38] cxlflash: Introduce OpenCXL backend

Uma Krishnan ukrishn at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Feb 24 06:36:37 AEDT 2018


> On Feb 22, 2018, at 10:28 PM, Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23/02/18 09:22, Uma Krishnan wrote:
>> Add initial infrastructure to support a new cxlflash transport, OpenCXL.
>> Claim a dependency on OpenCXL (OCXL) and add a new file, ocxl_hw.c, which
>> will host the backend routines that are specific to OpenCXL.
>> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Is it necessary to depend on OCXL in all cases? IMHO it should be possible to build a cxl-only version without ocxl, though I don't feel very strongly on this.

I thought through this and did not feel it is necessary to distinguish right now. I will look at adding this in the future. Thanks Andrew !


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