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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Hi Al,
>
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110031643130.23558-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> you wrote:
> > Moreover, ->release() for block_device also doesn't care for the junk
> > we pass - it only uses inode->i_rdev. In all cases. And I'd rather
> > see it them as
> > int (*open)(struct block_device *bdev, int flags, int mode);
> > int (*release)(struct block_device *bdev);
> > int (*check_media_change)(struct block_device *bdev);
> > int (*revalidate)(struct block_device *bdev);
> > - that would make more sense than the current variant. They are block_device
> > methods, not file or inode ones, after all.
>
> How about starting 2.5 with that patch ones 2.4.11 is done? Linus?

I don't think that it's a good idea. Such patch is trivial - it can be
done at any point in 2.5. Moreover, while it does clean some of the
mess up, I don't see a lot of other stuff that would depend on it.

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