From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: Nicholas Wourms <dragon@gentoo.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:19:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030407091923.B28879@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16017.11269.576246.373826@laputa.namesys.com>; from Nikita@Namesys.COM on Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:43:01AM +0400
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:43:01AM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms writes:
> >
> > A quick grep shows that Intermezzo FS still uses kdevname if
> > you've turned on debugging (fs/intermezzo/sysctl.c). As for
> > pending stuff, both Reiser4 & pktcdvd also use it. So I
>
> reiser4 switched to bdevname().
Although bdevname is the simplest replacement it's usually the wrong
one. If you refer to a filesystem with it use sb->s_id, if you refer
to a block device you normally want to use partition_name() - it gives
much nicer output.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-07 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-31 14:26 [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-06 20:28 ` Nicholas Wourms
2003-04-06 20:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-07 7:43 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-07 8:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-04-07 8:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-07 8:43 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-07 14:08 ` Nicholas Wourms
2003-04-07 14:25 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-07 14:35 ` Nicholas Wourms
2003-04-07 14:56 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-04-07 14:54 ` Oleg Drokin
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