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

[Jens Axboe <axboe kernel dk>]

On 2011-09-12 15:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

I tend to agree, we could rename the existing blk_make_request(). It
could be blk_make_request_from_bio() or something like that, since
that's what it does.

-- 
Jens Axboe