linux-kernel - Re: [patch][rfc] fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c

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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:48:10 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:35:43AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
>> Move some block device related code out from buffer.c and put it in
>> block_dev.c. I'm trying to move non-buffer_head code out of buffer.c
>>
>> Is this OK?
>>
>> ---
>>  fs/block_dev.c              |  146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  fs/buffer.c                 |  145 -------------------------------------------
>>  include/linux/buffer_head.h |    7 --
>>  include/linux/fs.h          |    7 ++
>>  4 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)
>
> If you are going to churn all this old code, maybe the blkdev stuff better 
> belongs in block/ dir?

Some of it...  BTW, so does fs/partitions/* stuff.  I'll resurrect the
patch taking that crap over to block/*.
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