From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756816AbbCRV2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:28:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40261 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754848AbbCRV2o (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:28:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:28:43 -0400 From: Mike Snitzer To: Dan Ehrenberg Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, agk@redhat.com, grundler@chromium.org, gwendal@chromium.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] init: Export name_to_dev_t and mark it const Message-ID: <20150318212842.GA17483@redhat.com> References: <1423610451-22600-1-git-send-email-dehrenberg@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1423610451-22600-1-git-send-email-dehrenberg@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 10 2015 at 6:20pm -0500, Dan Ehrenberg wrote: > name_to_dev_t is useful in other pieces of code to initialize rootfs. > In the case of dm, the code is sometimes built in a module and other > times used to construct the rootfs; therefore it must be exported > as a symbol. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg I'm going to pick these changes up and stage them in linux-dm.git's 'for-next' for Linux 4.1. Al and/or others, if you have any objections to the simple name_to_dev_t() changes in the first 2 patches of this set please shout. Thanks, Mike