[PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces

[Keith Busch]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 04:37:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..

If there weren't resistence to renaming structs, it would be more
aligned to how the specification calls these if we rename nvme_ns to
nvme_ns_path, and what you're calling nvme_ns_head is should just be
the nvme_ns.