Re: [PATCH 2/9] block: add a bdev_is_partition helper
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2020-09-03 08:26:17
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On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:19:34AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 07:42, Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Add a littler helper to make the somewhat arcane bd_contains checks a little more obvious. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>Not sure why we have both "bd_contains" and "bd_partno", nevertheless, feel free to add:
Right now both are needed for how blkdev_get/put work. But I plan to eventual kill off bd_contains after some major surgery to that code.