Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:19:23 +0100


On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:43:01AM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms writes:
> >
> > A quick grep shows that Intermezzo FS still uses kdevname if
> > you've turned on debugging (fs/intermezzo/sysctl.c). As for
> > pending stuff, both Reiser4 & pktcdvd also use it. So I
>
> reiser4 switched to bdevname().

Although bdevname is the simplest replacement it's usually the wrong
one. If you refer to a filesystem with it use sb->s_id, if you refer
to a block device you normally want to use partition_name() - it gives
much nicer output.

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