From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] what's the point of register_filesystem() in drivers/dax/super.c?
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:26:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190316202622.GE2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4jNdD6DcicoDkm9tYuWwVkY_Ri5FEotCPDmsE8=YAC6qA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 01:10:26PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 9:24 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > It's not user-mountable, kern_mount() doesn't care about
> > looking it up by name, so the only effect of having it registered
> > is having it visible in /proc/filesystems.
> >
> > Do you need that for anything? Because I would rather
> > avoid more of that voodoo...
>
> It can die. It was mindless copy/paste from fs/blockdev.c and the
> "bdev" fs. The device-dax unit tests pass just fine with it removed.
> I'll send a formal patch with the following:
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Do you prefer it in your tree, or would you rather have it go through
vfs.git?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-16 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 16:23 [RFC] what's the point of register_filesystem() in drivers/dax/super.c? Al Viro
2019-03-16 20:10 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-16 20:26 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-03-17 17:56 ` Dan Williams
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