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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a bdi reregistration race, v2
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:26:27 -0700
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On 11/30/2015 11:23 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:18:50PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Since the original patch caused a regression, please proceed with reverting
>> the original patch.
>>
>> Regarding this patch: is there anyone on the CC-list of this e-mail who can
>> review it ?
>
> I'm not too fond of the approach.  I'd much prefer if SCSI would just
> release the dev_t later, similar to DM or MD.

(replying to an e-mail of four months ago)

Hello Christoph,

Sorry that it took so long but last week I finally found the time to 
look further into this. I will post a third version of this patch.

Bart.