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

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On 7/4/23 09:14, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:26AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
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?

That is all in patch 0/32.  Why repeat it?

This cover letter: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230629165206.383-1-jack@xxxxxxx/T/#t?

The word "holder" doesn't even occur in that cover letter so how could the
answer to my question be present in the cover letter?

Bart.




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