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Subject: Re: [RFC v4 linux-next 19/19] fs & block: remove bdev->bd_inode
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 08:45:55PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> The only user that doesn't rely on files is the block layer itself in
> block/fops.c where we only have access to the block device. As the bdev
> filesystem doesn't open block devices as files obviously.

Why is that obvious?  Maybe I'm just thick but this seems odd to me.