[PATCH 07/10] nvme: track shared namespaces

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Aug 29 01:25:23 PDT 2017


On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 01:21:20PM -0700, J Freyensee wrote:
> > >      horrible.  One idea would be to rename the current struct nvme_ns
> > >      to struct nvme_ns_link or similar and use the nvme_ns name for the
> > >      new structure.  But that would involve a lot of churn.
> > 
> > maybe nvme_ns_primary?
> 
> Since it looks like it holds all unique identifier values and should hold
> other namespace characteristics later, maybe:
> 
> nvme_ns_item?
> Or nvme_ns_entry?
> Or nvme_ns_element?
> Or nvme_ns_unit?
> Or nvme_ns_entity?
> Or nvme_ns_container?

I hate them all (including the current ns_head name :)).

I suspect the only way that would make my taste happy is to call
this new one nvme_ns, but that would lead to a lot of churn.



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