* bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info?
@ 2009-09-14 9:41 Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 13:58 ` bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info? Christoph Hellwig
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From: Jens Axboe @ 2009-09-14 9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, Christoph Hellwig
Hi,
This looks a bit odd, what is the purpose of that? It also appears
currently to be unused, it's never set to anything but NULL.
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Jens Axboe
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* Re: bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info?
2009-09-14 9:41 bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info? Jens Axboe
@ 2009-09-14 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2009-09-14 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jens Axboe; +Cc: Linux Kernel, linux-fsdevel, Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:41:19AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This looks a bit odd, what is the purpose of that? It also appears
> currently to be unused, it's never set to anything but NULL.
It was introduced in:
commit 520808bf20e90fdbdb320264ba7dd5cf9d47dcac
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri May 21 00:46:17 2004 -0700
[PATCH] block device layer: separate backing_dev_info infrastructure
and already never set in that commit.
I'd say nuke it.
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