> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 8:21 AM > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 05:37:08PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > Users of the device mapper driver might want to obtain a device status, > > with status types defined in the status_type_t enumerator. > > The patch looks really odd. And without the corresponding user of your > new functionality it is entirely unreviewable anyway. Hi Christoph ok, I will send it together with a patch for a not yet accepted software, Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE), that will be the primary user of the introduced functionality. Regarding the patch itself, could you please provide a more detailed explanation? Thanks Roberto HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Duesseldorf GmbH, HRB 56063 Managing Director: Li Peng, Zhong Ronghua