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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nikita@Namesys.COM, dragon@gentoo.org, hch@lst.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 01:39:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030407013903.711d5927.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030407091923.B28879@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> partition_name()

That function would appear to be

a) slow

b) leaky

c) racy and

d) plain wrong if dev_t's can get recycled.

Can we at least give it a lock? :(


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-07  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-31 14:26 Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-06 20:28 ` Nicholas Wourms
2003-04-06 20:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-07  7:43   ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-07  8:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-07  8:39       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-04-07  8:43       ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-07 14:08     ` Nicholas Wourms
2003-04-07 14:25       ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-07 14:35         ` Nicholas Wourms
2003-04-07 14:56           ` Oleg Drokin
2003-04-07 14:54       ` Oleg Drokin

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