Re: time to move fs/bio.c to block/ ?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:28:16PM +0800, Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> Hi, Christoph, Jens,
> 
> BTW, just out of curiosity,  the VFS infrastructure code is just scatterd
> around the fs directory, which is quite suprised to a new comer that why
> there is "no" vfs stuff in fs directory.  Does it make sense to also collect
> them into a dedicated sub-dir, maybe vfs.  IMHO, this could make code
> skeleton more clear and could avoid such mis-sending patches in a long
> term maintainability view.

fs/*.[ch] shouldn't be much that isn't VFS in the broader sense
(including library functions). Besides the block files the only the only
things that might make sense to move out are binfmt*.c, signalfd.c
and timerfd.c (to kernel/ ?).

> 
> Thanks,
> Jianyu Zhan
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