linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] init: Export name_to_dev

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Message-ID: <20150318212842.GA17483@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:28:43 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@...omium.org>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, agk@...hat.com, grundler@...omium.org,
	gwendal@...omium.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] init: Export name_to_dev_t and mark it const

On Tue, Feb 10 2015 at  6:20pm -0500,
Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@...omium.org> wrote:

> name_to_dev_t is useful in other pieces of code to initialize rootfs.
> In the case of dm, the code is sometimes built in a module and other
> times used to construct the rootfs; therefore it must be exported
> as a symbol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@...omium.org>

I'm going to pick these changes up and stage them in linux-dm.git's
'for-next' for Linux 4.1.

Al and/or others, if you have any objections to the simple
name_to_dev_t() changes in the first 2 patches of this set please
shout.

Thanks,
Mike
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