linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] init: move block device helpers from init/do

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Message-ID: <Y5n9Yz4fNzAWczF5@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:44:19 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] init: move block device helpers from
 init/do_mounts.c

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 12:45:42PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> In init/do_mounts.c there are helper functions devt_from_partuuid,
> devt_from_partlabel and devt_from_devname. In order to make these
> functions available to other users, move them to block/bdev.c.

NAK.  As pointed out many times there should be no more users.
These functions are a horrible hack forthe  pre-initramfs boot
code and should not grow any additional users.