linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 2/3] blk-mq: remove blk_freeze

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Message-ID: <20221030073842.GC4131@lst.de>
Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2022 08:38:42 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jinlong Chen <nickyc975@....edu.cn>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, kbusch@...nel.org, hch@....de, sagi@...mberg.me,
        bvanassche@....org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 2/3] blk-mq: remove blk_freeze_queue

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 01:26:45PM +0800, Jinlong Chen wrote:
> Nobody is calling blk_freeze_queue except its alias, so remove it.

So while we really do not need both names - the queue freezing is also
used for non-mq drivers, so the naming without the mq is actually the
slightly more correct one.  But for that it should also move out of
blk-mq.c, so I'm not really sure touching this right now is all that
helpful.