[PATCH 07/20] init: refactor name_to_dev_t
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Thu Nov 19 02:52:25 EST 2020
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > -static inline dev_t blk_lookup_devt(const char *name, int partno)
> > -{
> > - dev_t devt = MKDEV(0, 0);
> > - return devt;
> > -}
> > #endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
>
> This hunk looks unrelated to the change? Also why you move the declaration
> outside the CONFIG_BLOCK ifdef? AFAICS blk_lookup_devt() still exists only
> when CONFIG_BLOCK is defined? Otherwise the patch looks good to me.
blk_lookup_devt is a hack only for name_to_dev_t only referenced from
code under CONFIG_BLOCK now, as it didn't do anything before when
blk_lookup_devt returned 0. I guess I'll need to update the commit log
a little to mention this.
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