From: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>

brd hasn't supported DAX for a long time but dax.rst
still suggests it as an example of how to write a DAX
supporting block driver.

Remove the reference, confuse less people.

Fixes: 7a862fbbdec6 ("brd: remove dax support")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
index 08dd5e254cc5..5b283f3d1eb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to
 implement direct_access.
 
 These block devices may be used for inspiration:
-- brd: RAM backed block device driver
 - pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver
 
 

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base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
change-id: 20250610-fixdasrstbrd20250610-074d8ed5623d

Best regards,
-- 
Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>

Daniel Palmer via B4 Relay <devnull+daniel.palmer.sony.com@kernel.org>
writes:

> From: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
>
> brd hasn't supported DAX for a long time but dax.rst
> still suggests it as an example of how to write a DAX
> supporting block driver.
>
> Remove the reference, confuse less people.
>
> Fixes: 7a862fbbdec6 ("brd: remove dax support")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel.palmer@sony.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
> index 08dd5e254cc5..5b283f3d1eb1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst
> @@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to
>  implement direct_access.
>  
>  These block devices may be used for inspiration:
> -- brd: RAM backed block device driver
>  - pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver

Applied, thanks.

jon