On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:37:14AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>> This is in preparation for removing the ->direct_access() method from
>> block_device_operations.
>
> I don't think mount_bdev has any business knowing about DAX.
> Just call dax_get_by_host manually from the affected file systems for
> now, and in the future we can have a pure-DAX mount_dax helper.

Ok, since we already need dax_get_by_host() in the blkdev_writepages()
path I can sprinkle a few more of those calls and leave mount_bdev
alone.
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