On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 04:50:39PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > How about the following class of assignments in drivers/md/raid1.c: > > mbio->bi_disk = (void *)conf->mirrors[i].rdev; > > Should these assignments perhaps be followed by a mbio->bi_partno assignment? No. They assign a struct md_rdev to the bi_disk pointer, abusing it for internal storage. They should not assign mbio->bi_partno. Instead we should figure out a way to get rid of this. > > How about the following class of assignments in the NVMe code: > > bio->bi_disk = disk; > > Should these assignments perhaps be followed by a bio->bi_partno assignment? No, the multipath code always works on whole namespaces, not partitions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
