On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:14:41PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:10:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I really think that replacing "kdevname()" with "__bdevname()" is a step
> > in the wrong direction (or at least sideways).
>
> kdevname() is the really wrong interface because it doesn't know whether
> we have a character or block device. __bdevname is a bit better because
> it's block-device specific. It's not perfect yet, though.
And the actual important information is missing in this mail (I'm a bit
fast in hitting the send button today :)). The proper replacement for
kdevname on blockdevices would be partitions_name - but in this specific
case we can't use it because it's the piece of code that constructs the
name that is stored for use by partition_name if we don't have any
better information.
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