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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the device-mapper tree with Linus'
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Mike, Hannes,

I think this patch is rather harmful.  Why does device mapper even
mix file system path with a dev_t and all the other weird forms
parsed by name_to_dev_t, which was supposed to be be for the early
init code where no file system is available.

Can we please kick off a proper discussion for this on the linux-block
list?