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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
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	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
	Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration
	crashes
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 01:53:36PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > this looks mostly fine to me.  A few code comments below, but except
> > for this there is another issue with it:  We still have drivers
> > that share a single request_queue for multiple gendisks, so I wonder
> 
> scsi drivers or others? If those drivers can switch to dynamically
> allocated devt (GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT), then they don't need this fix.

Mostly old floppy drivers.