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

[Nikita Danilov]

Christoph Hellwig writes:
 > 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.

Thank you for the information.

We need something to name per super block directory under
/sys/fs/reiser4. It probably makes sense to have a convention for this
shared by all file systems living on top of block devices, like using
sb->s_id.

 > 

Nikita.