Re: struct dm_ioctl

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 06:34:56 EST


On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:27:29PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> One is struct dm_ioctl. Google tells me that it was
> noticed already that it defined a broken interface,
> and Kevin Corry submitted a patch against 2.5.51.
> Today this has not been applied yet.
>
> What is the status? Should I resubmit that patch?

DM already has a pathname-based interface. Just rip out the dev_t-
based one, this will also allow to simplify the kernel code by using
the pathname to fully setuped blockdevice helpers I added to block_dev.c

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