On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:43:15PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> <sigh>  yes but the earlier patch:
> 
> [PATCH 03/22] mm: remove hmm_devmem_add_resource
> 
> Removes the only place type is set to MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC.
> 
> So I think it is ok.  Frankly I was wondering if we should remove the public
> type altogether but conceptually it seems ok.  But I don't see any users of it
> so...  should we get rid of it in the code rather than turning the config off?

That was my original idea.  But then again Jerome spent a lot of effort
putting hooks for it all over the mm and it would seem a little root
to just rip this out ASAP.  I'll give it some more time, but it it doesn't
get used after a few more kernel releases we should nuke it.
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