Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally available

Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-14T07:02:57Z

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:19:24AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 11/13/2015 05:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken. Better suggestions
>> welcome.
>
> Hello Christoph,
>
> Would it be possible to provide more background information about this ?
> Which other kernel subsystem is using the name iopoll ?

Take a look at include/linux/iopoll.h - I can't reaplly make much sense
of it to be honest, but it's used in a quite a few places.