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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] xfs: create buftarg helpers to abstract block_device
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 12:14:20PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> 
> In the next few patches, we're going into introduce buffer targets that
> are not block devices.  Introduce block_device helpers so that the
> compiler can check that we're not feeding an xfile object to something
> expecting a block device.

I don't see how these helpers allow the compiler to check anything.
I also don't see any other good reason for the helpers, but maybe I'm
just missing something.