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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:23:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040101232345.GB5143@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040101232137.GR4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:21:37PM +0000, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> Obvious: we need at least some rules regarding who can and who can not
> play with that field.  IOW, which filesystem?

Okay, let's make it more general.  Throw the filesystem completly out of
the few and say the private data can be used by the owner of that
blockdevice as established by bd_claim, okay?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-01 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-01 16:42 [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-01 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-01 23:21   ` viro
2004-01-01 23:23     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-01-01 23:28       ` viro
2004-01-01 23:32         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-04 22:04           ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-01 23:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-02  2:43   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-02  8:48     ` Christoph Hellwig

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