[PATCH 01/32] block: Provide blkdev_get_handle_* functions
Bart Van Assche
bvanassche at acm.org
Tue Jul 4 07:06:26 PDT 2023
On 7/4/23 05:21, Jan Kara wrote:
> +struct bdev_handle {
> + struct block_device *bdev;
> + void *holder;
> +};
Please explain in the patch description why a holder pointer is
introduced in struct bdev_handle and how it relates to the bd_holder
pointer in struct block_device. Is one of the purposes of this patch
series perhaps to add support for multiple holders per block device?
Thanks,
Bart.
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