Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:59:55 +0100 | From | Joe Thornber <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] dm: Repair persistent minors |
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:19:48PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <20030611100542.GD2499@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> you wrote: > > Split the dm_create() function into two variants, depending on whether > > you want the device to have a specific minor number. This avoids > > the broken overloading of the minor argument to the old dm_create(). > > why dont you just call dm_create_with_minor() from dm_create and skip the > create_aux function?
Because I'm trying to avoid having a special value to the 'minor' arg to indicate that we can use any minor.
> the create_aux function is pretty badly named, me > thinks. you sould at least call it dm_create_aux.
I use the dm_ prefix for external functions.
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