Re: 2.6.0-mm1

viro
2003-12-23T21:08:06Z

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:11:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> +inode-i_sb-checks.patch
>
> Add checks for null inode->i_sb in core VFS (we're still arguing about this)

They should be replaced with BUG_ON() or removed.

> +name_to_dev_t-fix.patch
>
> Don't replace slashes in names to `.'. Replace them with `!' instead. No
> clue why, nobody tells me anything.

Take a look at /sys/block/ and you'll see - when we register disks, we mangle
the disk names that contain slashes (e.g. cciss/c0d0) replacing them with '!'
in corresponding sysfs names. So name_to_dev_t() should mangle the name in
the same way before looking for it in /sys/block.