Alison Schofield wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 03:47:20PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > The typical case is that CXL devices are pure ram devices. Only emit > > capacity sizes when they are non-zero to avoid confusion around whether > > pmem is available via partitioning or not. > > > > Do the same for ram_size on the odd case that someone builds a pure pmem > > device. > > Maybe a few more words around what confusion this seeks to avoid. > The confusion being that a user may assign more meaning to the zero > size value than it actually deserves. A zero value for either > pmem or ram, doesn't indicate the devices capability for either mode. > Use the -I option to cxl list to include paritition info in the > memdev listing. That will explicitly show the ram and pmem capabilities > of the device. >
I went ahead and added this verbatim to the changelog, thanks!
