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bdev: Improve lookup_bdev documentation

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Add a Context section and rewrite the rest to be clearer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213171113.3097631-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2021-12-13 17:11:13 +00:00 committed by Jens Axboe
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@ -955,15 +955,15 @@ void blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_put);
/**
* lookup_bdev - lookup a struct block_device by name
* @pathname: special file representing the block device
* @dev: return value of the block device's dev_t
* lookup_bdev() - Look up a struct block_device by name.
* @pathname: Name of the block device in the filesystem.
* @dev: Pointer to the block device's dev_t, if found.
*
* Lookup the block device's dev_t at @pathname in the current
* namespace if possible and return it by @dev.
* namespace if possible and return it in @dev.
*
* RETURNS:
* 0 if succeeded, errno otherwise.
* Context: May sleep.
* Return: 0 if succeeded, negative errno otherwise.
*/
int lookup_bdev(const char *pathname, dev_t *dev)
{