Re: sys/fs and sys/block

[Nikita Danilov]

Patrick Mochel writes:
 > 

[...]

 > 
 > >From the original author: 
 > 
 > "Also, struct kobject is embedded into struct super_block. It is
 > naturally file system responsibility to register it (and may be some
 > other kobject's) at mount, and unregister at umount."

I (the original author) think it is cleaner to leave initialization and
registering of this kobject to the file system back end. For example,
there is no obvious generic way to generate names for such objects, etc.

 > 
 > I wonder if it can, and should, be done automatically. Or, if we can just 
 > use symlinks to point to the partitions, instead of creating a new object 
 > at all. 

Err. Not sure I understand. kobject representing file system instance
would probably have completely different set of attributes than
underlying partition object. Then, there are !FS_REQUIRES_DEV file
systems.

 > 
 > Thanks for the questions,
 > 

Nikita.

 > 
 > 	-pat