linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the staging tree

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:18:16 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the staging tree

Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com> wrote:

> struct erofs_mount_private priv = {
> 	.dev_name = dev_name,
> 	.options = data
> };
> return mount_bdev(fs_type, flags, dev_name, &priv, erofs_fill_super);
> 
> 
> However, I have no idea if it is safe to do so in the future, so I also
> change it into a more stardard way.

Hopefully, in the near future, you won't do it like this at all, but rather
create an fs_context and then your filesystem would be able to munge that
directly before calling mount_bdev().

David