[PATCH v2 2/4] block: Add Sed-opal library

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Dec 9 10:30:34 PST 2016


On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Scott Bauer wrote:
> Now, with this in mind, it sort of makes sense to move this from
> block/ back into lib/ and interface with the character dev. Instead
> of passing around block_devices, we can pass around struct file *'s.
>

Even the character device is always backed by the queues, and I'd really
not prefer to have a struct file here - that's not useful at all
for in-kernel users.



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