From: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@wdc.com>,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop: Add LOOP_SET_FD_WITH_OFFSET ioctl.
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:25:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB0TPYEwOd-jYJTkq1DYp=c7uXMKvpSpgpcpZGMwW2QsYkOtSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200331074828.GA24372@lst.de>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:48 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> I think the full blown set fd an status would seem a lot more useful,
> or even better a LOOP_CTL_ADD variant that sets up everything important
> on the character device so that we avoid the half set up block devices
> entirely.
Thanks for the feedback, I will work on that then. I think I could do
both - LOOP_SET_FD_AND_STATUS and a new variant of LOOP_CTL_ADD that
calls it - the former could still be useful if the kernel pre-created
a large amount of loop devices.
Martijn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-31 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-29 14:04 [PATCH] loop: Add LOOP_SET_FD_WITH_OFFSET ioctl Martijn Coenen
2020-03-29 16:48 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-03-29 20:19 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-03-30 1:00 ` Ming Lei
2020-03-30 8:06 ` Martijn Coenen
2020-03-31 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-31 11:25 ` Martijn Coenen [this message]
2020-03-31 11:40 Martijn Coenen
2020-03-31 11:42 ` Martijn Coenen
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