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Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 01/32] block: Provide blkdev_get_handle_*
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On 7/4/23 09:14, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:26AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On 7/4/23 05:21, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> +struct bdev_handle {
>>> +	struct block_device *bdev;
>>> +	void *holder;
>>> +};
>>
>> Please explain in the patch description why a holder pointer is introduced
>> in struct bdev_handle and how it relates to the bd_holder pointer in struct
>> block_device. Is one of the purposes of this patch series perhaps to add
>> support for multiple holders per block device?
> 
> That is all in patch 0/32.  Why repeat it?

This cover letter: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230629165206.383-1-jack@suse.cz/T/#t?

The word "holder" doesn't even occur in that cover letter so how could the
answer to my question be present in the cover letter?

Bart.