Re: [RFC 06/15] PM / Hibernate: swap, remove swap_map_handle usages

[Jiri Slaby]

On 03/24/2010 09:33 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2010-03-23 17:17:34, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Some code, which will be moved out of swap.c, needs know nothing about
>> swap. There will be also other than swap writers later, so that it
>> won't make sense at all.
>>
>> Make it a global static in swap.c as a singleton.
> 
> I guess I just dislike global static. Logically, methods do operate on
> handles, so...

Ok, "upper layers" may get a handle via .get_reader/writer. The downside
is that they would have to get (void *) and pass (void *) down again. I
wanted to avoid that (taking into account that it's a singleton).

> I don't see a point and I do not think the change is an improvement.

The point was to avoid (void *)'s and save users from transferring
pointer as a handle. No matter what, the decision is not up to me,
discussion indeed welcome.

-- 
js
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