On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:16:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 05:45:13 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:31:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Use the proper helper to open a blockdevice by name for filesystem > > > use, this makes sure it's properly claimed (also added for open-by-number) > > > and gets rid of the struct file abuse. > > > > > > Tested by mounting a reiserfs filesystem with external journal. > > > > Folks, what do we do with this patch? It's been out for more than a > > month but didn't actually get picked up in any tree. > > It's still sitting in the great pile of things I got sent over Christmas > and haven't looked at yet. It didn't look like a bugfix.
Well, it's fixing that reiserds doesn't bd_claim it's journal device so people can open the block device with O_EXCL against the documetned semantics. It's probably also fixing various corner cases that open_bdev_excl deals with and a hand-crafted filp_open doesn't. > > I'd really like > > to see this going in soon. > > How come? I just hate sitting on a stack of patches. Even more so if I'd like to see the public API removed in there eventually go away. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
