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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: WeiXiong Liao <gmpy.liaowx@gmail.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: use case for register_pstore_blk?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:52:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201006155220.GA11668@lst.de> (raw)

Hi WeiXiong, hi Kees,

what is the use case for the code added in commit 17639f67c1d6 
("pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices").

This still doesn't have a user, and the API looks really odd to me.
By our normal kernel rules we should not add new exports without
users and this should probably be reverted for the 5.9 release.

             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-06 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-06 15:52 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-10-07  7:13 ` use case for register_pstore_blk? Kees Cook
2020-10-07  7:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07  7:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07  8:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 18:40       ` Kees Cook
2020-10-07 18:42         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 19:17           ` Kees Cook
2020-10-12  7:02             ` Christoph Hellwig

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