On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 02:33:15PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > nvme_ctrl_get_by_path() is analagous to blkdev_get_by_path() except it > gets a struct nvme_ctrl from the path to its char dev (/dev/nvme0). > It makes use of filp_open() to open the file and uses the private > data to obtain a pointer to the struct nvme_ctrl. If the fops of the > file do not match, -EINVAL is returned. > > The purpose of this function is to support NVMe-OF target passthru.
This looks generally good. However since the early days of this patchset we've grown symbol namespaces, and the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL macro, which are what we really should use here and for the other exports.