From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: jack@suse.cz, leochen@broadcom.com, neilb@suse.de,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, dm-devel@redhat.com,
adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp,
shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com,
joel.becker@oracle.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
aelder@sgi.com, mfasheh@suse.com, joern@logfs.org,
reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
swhiteho@redhat.com, chris.mason@oracle.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
tytso@mit.edu, sbranden@broadcom.com, petero2@telia.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [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 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-01 16:15 [Drbd-dev] [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 1/5] mtd: fix bdev exclusive open bugs in block2mtd::add_device() Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <1289644735.2218.8.camel@localhost>
2010-11-13 10:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-13 10:59 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <1289646865.2218.27.camel@localhost>
2010-11-13 11:18 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [Drbd-dev] [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 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 3/5] block: simplify holder symlink handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-04 15:06 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 4/5] block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access Tejun Heo
2010-11-03 15:06 ` 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]
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 5/5] block: reorganize claim/release implementation Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 19:49 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Neil Brown
2010-11-03 15:53 ` Philipp Reisner
2010-11-11 17:10 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 6/5] block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get() Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 17:11 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 7/5] block: clean up blkdev_get() wrappers and their users Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 17:14 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-27 16:01 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-27 18:47 ` Jens Axboe
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