Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 May 2005 16:37:39 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/5] bdev: execute in place (V2) |
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:36:49PM +0200, Carsten Otte wrote: > 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.
That's going to change real soon.
> 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?
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