Hello, On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 06:45:28PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Now that we got ri of the bdi abuse on character devices we can always use ^^^ rid > sb->s_bdi to get at the backing_dev_info for a file, except for the block > device special case. Export inode_to_bdi and replace uses of > mapping->backing_dev_info with it to prepare for the removal of > mapping->backing_dev_info. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Ah, this is so much better. Thanks a lot for doing this. Just one nit below. > +struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode) > { > struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; > #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK > @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static inline struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode) > #endif > return sb->s_bdi; > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_to_bdi); This is rather trivial. Maybe we wanna make this an inline function? Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html