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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:43:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040102024317.GA3851@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040101151017.3f7bc407.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:10:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > --- 1.276/include/linux/fs.h	Mon Dec 29 22:37:20 2003
> > +++ edited/include/linux/fs.h	Thu Jan  1 13:42:08 2004
> > @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@
> >  	int			bd_invalidated;
> >  	struct gendisk *	bd_disk;
> >  	struct list_head	bd_list;
> > +	unsigned long		bd_fspriv; /* file-system private data */
> >  };
> >  
> >  /*
> 
> Seems sane.  You'll need to decide whether that field should be operated
> upon with atomic ops.  If so, document it.  If not, document its locking,
> please.

It looks like the standard normally-a-pointer thing that's completely
managed opaquely to the block device layer.  In fact, I actually prefer
that these be (void*) unless there is a common use as an integer.

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-02  2:43 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
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 [this message]
2004-01-02  8:48     ` Christoph Hellwig

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