[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 01/32] block: Provide blkdev_get_handle_* functions

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Jul 6 17:38:40 CEST 2023


On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:21:28PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Create struct bdev_handle that contains all parameters that need to be
> passed to blkdev_put() and provide blkdev_get_handle_* functions that
> return this structure instead of plain bdev pointer. This will
> eventually allow us to pass one more argument to blkdev_put() without
> too much hassle.

Can we use the opportunity to come up with better names?  blkdev_get_*
was always a rather horrible naming convention for something that
ends up calling into ->open.

What about:

struct bdev_handle *bdev_open_by_dev(dev_t dev, blk_mode_t mode, void *holder,
		const struct blk_holder_ops *hops);
struct bdev_handle *bdev_open_by_path(dev_t dev, blk_mode_t mode,
		void *holder, const struct blk_holder_ops *hops);
void bdev_release(struct bdev_handle *handle);

?


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