From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time to move fs/bio.c to block/ ?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 09:58:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140519165846.GC663@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140519163942.GJ18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 05:39:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> ACK on ioprio.c (BTW, looking at block... WTF is the story with that
> pile of blk-* in there? IOW, why blk-exec.c is better than exec.c,
> etc.?)
>
> As for fs/no-block.c... IMO that's a bad idea - it makes sense only
> if we take fs/block.c there as well, and that one wants fs/internal.h.
Right, we still have block_dev.c which is more VFS than block. Makes
sense to keep no-block.c then.
> Why do we need that ->llseek = noop_llseek there, while we are at it?
> Its ->open() always fails, so how is ->llseek() going to get looked at,
> let alone called?
Looks like a larger mechanical conversation of lseek instances..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 14:13 time to move fs/bio.c to block/ ? Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 14:14 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-19 14:25 ` Al Viro
2014-05-19 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 14:31 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-19 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-19 16:39 ` Al Viro
2014-05-19 16:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-05-19 17:05 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-20 0:28 ` Ming Lei
2014-05-20 2:00 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-19 14:28 ` Jianyu Zhan
2014-05-19 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
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