From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, petero2@telia.com,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, jack@suse.cz,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
tytso@mit.edu, mfasheh@suse.com, joel.becker@oracle.com,
aelder@sgi.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com,
neilb@suse.de, leochen@broadcom.com, sbranden@broadcom.com,
chris.mason@oracle.com, swhiteho@redhat.com,
shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, joern@logfs.org,
konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 05:36:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101109103620.GA18355@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD9239E.2080209@kernel.org>
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So, after the above points, I decided to keep @mode. It is a bit
> awkward but the other way didn't seem too hip either. Any better
> ideas?
Let's keep it for now and revisit it later.
> That will make the number of functions multiplied by two -
> blkdev_get_by_path_stacked() and blkdev_get_by_dev_stacked(). The
> symlinking for stacked drivers is an oddball feature which is and will
> be only used by md and dm. So, I think it's better to keep it
> separate and oddball.
Oh well. I still don't like it, but let keeps it simple to make
progress for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1288628129-12811-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] mtd: fix bdev exclusive open bugs in block2mtd::add_device() Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] btrfs: close_bdev_exclusive() should use the same @flags as the matching open_bdev_exclusive() Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: simplify holder symlink handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: reorganize claim/release implementation Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 19:49 ` [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Neil Brown
2010-11-03 15:53 ` [Drbd-dev] " Philipp Reisner
[not found] ` <1288628129-12811-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-03 15:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access Jan Kara
2010-11-09 10:18 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-03 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-04 15:04 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-11-09 10:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-09 10:36 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <1288628129-12811-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-04 15:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: simplify holder symlink handling Mike Snitzer
2010-11-11 17:10 ` [PATCH 6/5] block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get() Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 7/5] block: clean up blkdev_get() wrappers and their users Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 17:14 ` [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4CDC23BB.10505@kernel.org>
2010-11-11 19:19 ` [PATCH 7/5] block: clean up blkdev_get() wrappers and their users Steven Whitehouse
[not found] ` <1288628129-12811-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-13 10:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] mtd: fix bdev exclusive open bugs in block2mtd::add_device() Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 10:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-13 11:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2010-11-13 11:14 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 11:18 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4CDC2488.1030801@kernel.org>
2010-11-27 16:01 ` [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4CF12B4B.2050909@kernel.org>
2010-11-27 18:47 ` Jens Axboe
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