[PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Sep 21 07:37:48 PDT 2017


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 07:22:17AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > But head also has connotations in the SAN world.  Maybe nvme_ns_chain?
> 
> I know that's why I didn't really like it all too much in the first place as
> well. For nvme_ns_chain, it's not a chain really (the list itself is a chain,
> the structure really is the list head...), but I suck at naming things so.

Well, it _is_ the structure for the namespace, and that's the fundamental
problem here given that we use that name for something else at the
moment.

We could hav nvme_namespace and nvme_ns, but I'm not sure that this
helps clarity..



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