[PATCH 01/32] block: Provide blkdev_get_handle_* functions

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Fri Jul 7 05:24:34 PDT 2023


On Fri 07-07-23 04:28:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > struct bdev_handle *bdev_open_by_path(dev_t dev, blk_mode_t mode,
> > > 		void *holder, const struct blk_holder_ops *hops);
> > > void bdev_release(struct bdev_handle *handle);
> > 
> > I'd maybe use bdev_close() instead of bdev_release() but otherwise I like
> > the new naming.
> 
> We're using release everywhese else, but if Jens is fine with that I
> can live with close.

Dunno, to me words pair like open-close, get-put, acquire-release.
Furthermore e.g. ->release() (and thus blkdev_release()) is called only
when the last file reference is dropped, not when each reference is
dropped, so that's why bdev_release() seems a bit confusing to me.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR



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