[PATCH 0/8] MUSE: Userspace backed MTD v3

[Richard Weinberger]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:18 AM Miklos Szeredi <miklos at szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > Does this more or less what you had in mind?
>
> Just moving the whole internal header file is not nice.  I did a
> mechanical public/private separation of the interface based on what
> CUSE uses.   Incremental patch attached.
>
> But this is just a start.  From the big structures still left in
> <net/fuse.h> CUSE only uses the following fields:
>
> fc: .minor, max_read, max_write, rcu, release, initialized, num_waiting
> fm: .fc
> ff: .fm
> fud: .fc
>
> Dealing with the last 3 is trivial:  create and alloc function for the
> fm, and create accessor functions for the accessed fields.

Ah, ok. So the goal is that <net/fuse.h> provides the bare minimum such that
CUSE and MUSE can reside outside of fs/fuse?

> Dealing with fc properly is probably a bit more involved, but does not
> seem to be too compex at first glance.
>
> Do you want to take a stab at cleaning this up further?

Yes. I guess for MUSE the interface needs little adaptations as well.
But I won't be able to do this for the 5.12 merge window.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard