[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: export __make_request

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Sep 12 13:38:26 UTC 2011


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > What happens to the existing blk_make_request?
> 
> I ended up naming __make_request() blk_queue_bio() instead.

I really hate naming things different from the method they are
implementing.  I've tried to figure out what the point of the
old blk_make_request is - why would we not go through
generic_make_request for this?

Boaz, any idea?




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