linux-ext4 - Re: remove bio

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Message-ID: <20220307164814.GA12591@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 7 Mar 2022 17:48:14 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        dm-devel@...hat.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: remove bio_devname

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:45:53AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Should those go through block too? Or is there no plan to remove
> bdevname()?

My preference would be:  do the full bio_devname removal through Jens'
tree and you keep the bvdevname removal.  I hope bdevname will go away
as well, but certainly not in this merge window.