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Re: [PATCH RFC v2 for-6.8/block 01/18] block: add some bdev apis
- To: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:14:24 -0800
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- Delivery-date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:15:19 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 05:52:17PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > +void bdev_associated_mapping(struct block_device *bdev,
> > + struct address_space *mapping)
> > +{
> > + mapping->host = bdev->bd_inode;
> > +}
>
> Here I'm not sure - is the helper really a win? It seems a bit obscure to
> me. This initialization of another mapping for a bdev looks really special.
If we want to hide bd_inode we'll something like this helper even if
I don't particularly like it either.
But it might be a good idea to move out of this series and into the
follow on removing bd_inode, as it's rather pointless without that
context.
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