Re: [PATCH 0/4] factor __btrfs_open_devices()

[Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>]

On 11/16/2017 01:03 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:45:22PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
>> This is in preparation to help bring the missing device back to the
>> alloc list dynamically. As of now if we run 'btrfs dev scan </dev/missing>'
>> on a mounted FS, nothing happens, there is no code which handles this
>> condition. So the idea is to fix it by running through the device open
>> process for the reappeared missing device.
>>
>> So this patch separates device open steps into a separate function so that
>> it can be called for a device, instead of for all the devices in the
>> dev_list. As this function is in the critical mount section, and to show
>> the src code changes as clearly as possible, I have created 4 no-functional
>> changes patches, which can be merged together if needed.
> 
> The splitting is fine, I've only merged 2 and 4 to one, but otherwise
> it's clear from each patch if there are no functional changes. 1,3,2+4
> added to next, thanks.

Thanks indeed. (git-diff showed changes which didn't make sense,
I had to split, merge is fine).

Thanks, Anand