Hello, Aaron.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 02:07:25PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> +static int is_gendisk_part0(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> + struct device **child = data;
> +
> + if (dev->class == &block_class && dev->type == &disk_type) {
> + *child = dev;
> + return 1;
> + } else
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * disk_from_device - Get the gendisk pointer for this device.
> + * @dev: the device this gendisk is created for, i.e. gendisk->driverfs_dev
> + *
> + * LLD sometimes need to play with the gendisk without HLD's aware,
> + * this routine gives LLD the required access to gendisk.
> + *
> + * CONTEXT:
> + * Don't care.
> + */
> +struct gendisk *disk_from_device(struct device *dev)
> +{
> + struct device *child;
> +
> + if (device_for_each_child(dev, &child, is_gendisk_part0))
> + return dev_to_disk(child);
> + else
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(disk_from_device);
This is really a round-about way to find out the matching device and
it wouldn't work if the disk device nests deeper. Doesn't really look
like a good idea to me.
> Then together with disk_try_block_events and disk_unblock_events, we can
> avoid touching SCSI layer to let ODD stay in zero power state.
Also, I'd much prefer something along the line of
block_events_nowait() instead of try_block.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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