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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices  in 2.4.11-pre2
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:56:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110032156.f93LuJb01378@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110031643130.23558-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

Hi Al,

In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110031643130.23558-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> you wrote:
> Moreover, ->release() for block_device also doesn't care for the junk
> we pass - it only uses inode->i_rdev.  In all cases.  And I'd rather
> see it them as
> 	int (*open)(struct block_device *bdev, int flags, int mode);
> 	int (*release)(struct block_device *bdev);
> 	int (*check_media_change)(struct block_device *bdev);
> 	int (*revalidate)(struct block_device *bdev);
> - that would make more sense than the current variant.  They are block_device
> methods, not file or inode ones, after all.

How about starting 2.5 with that patch ones 2.4.11 is done?  Linus?

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-03 12:17 bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2 Vladimir V. Saveliev
2001-10-03 13:16 ` [PATCH] " Alexander Viro
2001-10-03 16:18   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-03 21:43     ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-03 21:56       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-10-03 22:51         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-03 19:55           ` Whining about 2.5 (was Re: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2) Rob Landley
2001-10-04  0:38             ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-03 22:27               ` Rob Landley
2001-10-04 20:53                 ` Whining about 2.5 (was Re: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2O Alan Cox
2001-10-04 23:59                   ` Whining about NUMA. :) [Was whining about 2.5...] Rob Landley
2001-10-05 14:51                     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 17:57                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-08 18:10                         ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 18:20                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-08 18:31                             ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 18:35                             ` Jesse Barnes
2001-10-08 18:55                               ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-08 17:48                                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-08 19:20                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-08 19:12                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2001-10-08 19:37                                   ` Peter Rival
2001-10-04 23:39                 ` NUMA & classzones (was Whining about 2.5) Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-04 23:55                   ` Rob Landley
2001-10-05 17:29                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-06  1:44                     ` Jesse Barnes
2001-10-04 21:02             ` Whining about 2.5 (was Re: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2) Alan Cox
2001-10-03 21:09 ` Buffer cache confusion? Re: [reiserfs-list] bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2 Eric Whiting

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