linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: memory_open cleanup - lookup minor device number from devlist

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:01:55 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf@....com.br>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: memory_open cleanup - lookup minor device
 number from devlist

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:05:23 -0300
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf@....com.br> wrote:

> memory_open ignores devlist and does a switch for each item, duplicating 
> code
> and conditional definitions.
> 
> Clean it adding backing_dev_info to devlist and use it to lookup for the 
> minor
> device.

The patch looks reasonable, however your email client replaced all tabs
with spaces and I didn't really feel like fixing it all up.

I wonder what the lock_kernel() calls in memory_open() are doing.
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