Re: [PATCH] drivers: memory_open cleanup - lookup minor devicenumber from devlist

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:05:23 -0300
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> memory_open ignores devlist and does a switch for each item, duplicating 
> code
> and conditional definitions.
> 
> Clean it adding backing_dev_info to devlist and use it to lookup for the 
> minor
> device.

The patch looks reasonable, however your email client replaced all tabs
with spaces and I didn't really feel like fixing it all up.

I wonder what the lock_kernel() calls in memory_open() are doing.
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