diff --git a/drivers/dax/pmem/Makefile b/drivers/dax/pmem/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 191c31f..0000000
--- a/drivers/dax/pmem/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM) += dax_pmem.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM) += dax_pmem_core.o
-
-dax_pmem-y := pmem.o
-dax_pmem_core-y := core.o
-dax_pmem_compat-y := compat.o
diff --git a/drivers/dax/pmem/pmem.c b/drivers/dax/pmem/pmem.c
deleted file mode 100644
index dfe91a2..0000000
--- a/drivers/dax/pmem/pmem.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/* Copyright(c) 2016 - 2018 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. */
-#include <linux/percpu-refcount.h>
-#include <linux/memremap.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/pfn_t.h>
-#include <linux/nd.h>
-#include "../bus.h"
-
-
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/dax_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/dax_devs.c
index 6b4922d..37b743a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/dax_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/dax_devs.c
@@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ int nd_dax_probe(struct device *dev, struct nd_namespace_common *ndns)
 
 	nvdimm_bus_lock(&ndns->dev);
 	nd_dax = nd_dax_alloc(nd_region);
-	nd_pfn = &nd_dax->nd_pfn;
-	dax_dev = nd_pfn_devinit(nd_pfn, ndns);
+	dax_dev = nd_dax_devinit(nd_dax, ndns);
 	nvdimm_bus_unlock(&ndns->dev);
 	if (!dax_dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	pfn_sb = devm_kmalloc(dev, sizeof(*pfn_sb), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nd_pfn = &nd_dax->nd_pfn;
 	nd_pfn->pfn_sb = pfn_sb;
 	rc = nd_pfn_validate(nd_pfn, DAX_SIG);
 	dev_dbg(dev, "dax: %s\n", rc == 0 ? dev_name(dax_dev) : "<none>");
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
index 2dbb1dc..5ca06e9 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
@@ -600,6 +600,13 @@ struct nd_dax *to_nd_dax(struct device *dev);
 int nd_dax_probe(struct device *dev, struct nd_namespace_common *ndns);
 bool is_nd_dax(const struct device *dev);
 struct device *nd_dax_create(struct nd_region *nd_region);
+static inline struct device *nd_dax_devinit(struct nd_dax *nd_dax,
+					    struct nd_namespace_common *ndns)
+{
+	if (!nd_dax)
+		return NULL;
+	return nd_pfn_devinit(&nd_dax->nd_pfn, ndns);
+}
 #else
 static inline int nd_dax_probe(struct device *dev,
 		struct nd_namespace_common *ndns)
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
index f55d609..c3f07be 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static int virtio_pmem_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
 		dev_info(&vdev->dev, "failed to send command to virtio pmem device\n");
 		err = -EIO;
 	} else {
-		/* A host repsonse results in "host_ack" getting called */
+		/* A host response results in "host_ack" getting called */
 		wait_event(req_data->host_acked, req_data->done);
 		err = le32_to_cpu(req_data->resp.ret);
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
index 5863481..cfdfe0e 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ int nd_pfn_validate(struct nd_pfn *nd_pfn, const char *sig)
 
 	if (!nd_pfn->uuid) {
 		/*
-		 * When probing a namepace via nd_pfn_probe() the uuid
+		 * When probing a namespace via nd_pfn_probe() the uuid
 		 * is NULL (see: nd_pfn_devinit()) we init settings from
 		 * pfn_sb
 		 */
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index 210fb77..d81faa9 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static long pmem_dax_direct_access(struct dax_device *dax_dev,
  * range, filesystem turns the normal pwrite to a dax_recovery_write.
  *
  * The recovery write consists of clearing media poison, clearing page
- * HWPoison bit, reenable page-wide read-write permission, flush the
+ * HWPoison bit, re-enable page-wide read-write permission, flush the
  * caches and finally write.  A competing pread thread will be held
  * off during the recovery process since data read back might not be
  * valid, and this is achieved by clearing the badblock records after
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 9d3e332..df41a00 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -27,12 +27,6 @@ struct dax_operations {
 	 */
 	long (*direct_access)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, long,
 			enum dax_access_mode, void **, pfn_t *);
-	/*
-	 * Validate whether this device is usable as an fsdax backing
-	 * device.
-	 */
-	bool (*dax_supported)(struct dax_device *, struct block_device *, int,
-			sector_t, sector_t);
 	/* zero_page_range: required operation. Zero page range   */
 	int (*zero_page_range)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, size_t);
 	/*