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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfs 2/2] {block|char}_dev: remove inode->i_devices
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:39:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141120133952.GC14877@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141120131118.GB14877@htj.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:11:18AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
...
> creating another one-off behavior.  If we demote this to something
> which is shared only between block and char devs, we can go simpler
> and less versatile.  Where should it go tho?

So, one option is implementing something minimal in fs/devptrs.h or
somesuch and include it from block/char_dev.c.  If it isn't exposed as
a generic lib function, this can be a lot simpler.  I'll give it a
shot later today.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-20 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-13 22:09 [PATCH vfs 1/2] lib: implement ptrset Tejun Heo
2014-11-13 22:11 ` [PATCH vfs 2/2] {block|char}_dev: remove inode->i_devices Tejun Heo
2014-11-18 12:10   ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-18 12:30     ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-20 10:42   ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-20 11:50     ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-20 12:36       ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-20 13:11         ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-20 13:39           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2014-11-20 14:14           ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-20 14:19             ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-13 22:23 ` [PATCH vfs 1/2] lib: implement ptrset Andrew Morton
2014-11-13 22:27   ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-13 22:40     ` Andrew Morton
2014-11-14 13:12       ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-18 20:46         ` Andrew Morton
2014-11-18  9:19 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-11-18 11:55   ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-19  1:41     ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-11-18 15:56 ` Azat Khuzhin
2014-11-18 17:16   ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-18 17:49 ` [PATCH vfs v2 " Tejun Heo
2014-11-25 16:37 ` [PATCH vfs " Jan Kara
2014-12-02 18:15   ` Tejun Heo

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