linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] fsfreeze: switch to using super methods everywhere

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Message-ID: <20100614152355.GD32354@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:23:55 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, josef@...hat.com, jeffmerkey@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fsfreeze: switch to using super methods everywhere

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:19:53PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> freeze/thaw_bdev are now just trivial wrappers around
> freeze/thaw_super(). Convert all users of the bdev interfaces to use
> the superblock interfaces instead, and remove the bdev interfaces.

This requires exporting get_active_super.  Buit if we want to keep suppoting
freezing of unmounted block devices we need to keep the helpers anyway.
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