linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] fs: rename alloc_anon_inode to alloc_anon_inode

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Message-ID: <20210309193342.GA3958006@xiangao.remote.csb>
Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 03:33:42 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        "VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] fs: rename alloc_anon_inode to alloc_anon_inode_sb

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:40PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Rename alloc_inode to free the name for a new variant that does not
> need boilerplate to create a super_block first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---

That is a nice idea as well to avoid sb by introducing an unique
fs...

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...hat.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang