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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fsfreeze: switch to using super methods everywhere
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:23:55 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:19:53PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> freeze/thaw_bdev are now just trivial wrappers around
> freeze/thaw_super(). Convert all users of the bdev interfaces to use
> the superblock interfaces instead, and remove the bdev interfaces.

This requires exporting get_active_super.  Buit if we want to keep suppoting
freezing of unmounted block devices we need to keep the helpers anyway.