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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Anuj Gupta <anuj1072538@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] block: factor out bdev_init_dma_buf_io_ctx()
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 02:49:11PM +0530, Anuj Gupta wrote:
> From: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@samsung.com>
> 
> Factor the checks and driver setup into an exported helper that takes
> an explicit block device, so filesystems can initialize a dma-buf I/O
> context for the device backing a regular file. The block-device file
> operation becomes a wrapper using file_bdev(), so its behavior is
> unchanged.

Please move hte helper out of block/fops.c, as that only is for
the block device file operations.