From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf@uol.com.br>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: memory_open cleanup - lookup minor device number from devlist
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:01:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420170155.9ff82860.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EBF483.8000908@uol.com.br>
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:05:23 -0300
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf@uol.com.br> wrote:
> memory_open ignores devlist and does a switch for each item, duplicating
> code
> and conditional definitions.
>
> Clean it adding backing_dev_info to devlist and use it to lookup for the
> minor
> device.
The patch looks reasonable, however your email client replaced all tabs
with spaces and I didn't really feel like fixing it all up.
I wonder what the lock_kernel() calls in memory_open() are doing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 4:05 [PATCH] drivers: memory_open cleanup - lookup minor device number from devlist Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
2009-04-21 0:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-21 0:27 ` Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
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