From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: Allow backing device to be assigned after init
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 16:22:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211001162204.f8d20e62e8b528f5e2e5fa3e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211001181627.394921-1-bgeffon@google.com>
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:16:27 -0700 Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> wrote:
> There does not appear to be a technical reason to not
> allow the zram backing device to be assigned after the
> zram device is initialized.
>
> This change will allow for the backing device to be assigned
> as long as no backing device is already assigned. In that
> event backing_dev would return -EEXIST.
Why is this useful?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-01 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-01 18:16 [PATCH] zram: Allow backing device to be assigned after init Brian Geffon
2021-10-01 23:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2021-10-04 14:33 ` Brian Geffon
2021-10-04 18:28 ` Minchan Kim
2021-10-04 18:40 ` Brian Geffon
2021-10-04 20:54 ` Minchan Kim
2021-10-05 15:01 ` Brian Geffon
2021-10-05 15:18 ` Brian Geffon
2021-10-05 16:37 ` Minchan Kim
2021-10-05 17:08 ` Brian Geffon
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