From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D911EB64D9 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2023 16:14:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=WVXEJUznT6BOEWXCov0o7UjH/ghvOKCwgfdVOCxQgOo=; b=z0E6Y5OChCUZwB uQKg66L5O6GW4fXj2czmIUjDxbTB0yhlETlmuhyS7kdM7ZDuYaIX58NflJoLfOUMKBPNd0r5tWp2o 5Pth786J7AXLkc2+aekPp9rq7Ym3jMczYguH9v9k0fjTQmU/KBKvqzUBcDHrtVHznvDq1XvKk2IoD ZsfC3OpT7XGimsZ9Zuf5JLJ0J7wqVbw1yLuvSncBcJRGBSFiGpKnQARRmp+nVNq0l4kCe/wPSZX6e Jl1i/jtC5867cPkillSS604hAVx8p4r0KZdmxCMBJyviy0usQaVst/eHajWd1nAbLxJ6ikYYTcJ8l RKD8mqHywEYEQXVgEcVg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qGifK-00DmhG-2U; Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:14:10 +0000 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qGifJ-00Dmgs-0F; Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:14:09 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=R1W87rnlNGGe3O62ySITe0WV/TkO13M6jrCnVpdBC/M=; b=ma0abi+l8BKnWZyE2Bm6SMUpzA GY/Sg9bKM4QGi5Fi3SxYqWXxJ46oHMzkk2XTYG6szPrdjaFZvCOeUvh2qeA+qFPnGTya2tgZ0Czoo anlh0yET7VOr2nReXBjhvXLbethMJyMQRtOEtJdxTJlnJDQLzVkEFxU1z6LlHa+R1Svpz+R+Zi/2e EbHE+jMBvtLJPxFFKggvC8J4kNKoPgnxYJ08D38bFVgefZT0kn05//LL45wE920g1ut/XHRnJF4Ur 2JcraLDAhTPQ+qGFyYF+arcI4MuDDkahpy1OJ1ZV5vzT8Q6c9E3mK76aIjApGP0H0G7MQh7QY3lZI j0pVBAMA==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qGifB-009I83-IW; Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:14:01 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 17:14:01 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Jan Kara , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Alasdair Kergon , Andrew Morton , Anna Schumaker , Chao Yu , Christian Borntraeger , "Darrick J. Wong" , Dave Kleikamp , David Sterba , dm-devel@redhat.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, Gao Xiang , Jack Wang , Jaegeuk Kim , jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Joern Engel , Joseph Qi , Kent Overstreet , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, "Md. Haris Iqbal" , Mike Snitzer , Minchan Kim , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky , Song Liu , Sven Schnelle , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, Ted Tso , Trond Myklebust , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] block: Provide blkdev_get_handle_* functions Message-ID: References: <20230629165206.383-1-jack@suse.cz> <20230704122224.16257-1-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:26AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 7/4/23 05:21, Jan Kara wrote: > > +struct bdev_handle { > > + struct block_device *bdev; > > + void *holder; > > +}; > > Please explain in the patch description why a holder pointer is introduced > in struct bdev_handle and how it relates to the bd_holder pointer in struct > block_device. Is one of the purposes of this patch series perhaps to add > support for multiple holders per block device? That is all in patch 0/32. Why repeat it? ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/