[PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Sep 20 07:54:36 PDT 2017


On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:36:43AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Being one of the persons who has to backport a lot of NVMe code to older
> kernels I'm not a huge fan of renaming nmve_ns.

The churn is main main worry.  Well and that I don't have a reall good
name for what currently is nvme_ns either :)

> That said, I don't have a better name for nvme_ns_head (yet) but I'll try to
> think of one as well. OTOH looking at nvme_ns_head it actaully is the list
> head of the nvme_ns list.

But head also has connotations in the SAN world.  Maybe nvme_ns_chain?



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