On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 04:54:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:36:43AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > > Being one of the persons who has to backport a lot of NVMe code to older > > kernels I'm not a huge fan of renaming nmve_ns. > > The churn is main main worry. Well and that I don't have a reall good > name for what currently is nvme_ns either :) > > > That said, I don't have a better name for nvme_ns_head (yet) but I'll try to > > think of one as well. OTOH looking at nvme_ns_head it actaully is the list > > head of the nvme_ns list. > > But head also has connotations in the SAN world. Maybe nvme_ns_chain? I know that's why I didn't really like it all too much in the first place as well. For nvme_ns_chain, it's not a chain really (the list itself is a chain, the structure really is the list head...), but I suck at naming things so. -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850
