Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 May 2005 17:36:49 +0200 | From | Carsten Otte <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/5] bdev: execute in place (V2) |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>+ int (*direct_access) (struct inode *, sector_t, unsigned long *); >> >> > >this should have a block_device * first argument. > > While I agree that (block_device *) would be a good thing to address the target block device, the inode * is consistent with other operations in this vector: open, release, & ioctl use the same scheme. The reason for inode * here is that the caller has no easy way to get to the block_device *. How would the filesystem do that? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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