From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: export __make_request Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:38:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20110912133826.GA22548@infradead.org> References: <20110911145053.GA28996@infradead.org> <4E6DD7F0.8020903@kernel.dk> <20110912122507.GA12229@infradead.org> <4E6DFA8C.3030400@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E6DFA8C.3030400@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bharrosh@panasas.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > What happens to the existing blk_make_request? > > I ended up naming __make_request() blk_queue_bio() instead. I really hate naming things different from the method they are implementing. I've tried to figure out what the point of the old blk_make_request is - why would we not go through generic_make_request for this? Boaz, any idea?