linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/22] staging: erofs: kill sbi->dev

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:46:16 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
CC:     <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <weidu.du@...wei.com>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/22] staging: erofs: kill sbi->dev_name

On 2019/7/29 14:51, Gao Xiang wrote:
> As Al said, "the only use of sbi->dev_name is debugging
> printks and all of those have sb->s_id available, with
> device name stored in there.  Which makes the whole
> thing bloody weird".
> 
> sbi->dev_name was used for our debugging use and it's
> better to just use s_id in community and delete
> the whole erofs_mount_private stuff.
> 
> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,