linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] char_dev: replace cdev

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Message-ID: <X/yUiALB921A/Z2Y@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:10:16 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char_dev: replace cdev_map with an xarray

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> None of the complicated overlapping regions bits of the kobj_map are
> required for the character device lookup, so just a trivial xarray
> instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Thanks for doing this!

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>