Re: [PATCH 8/9] block: remove DISK_PITER_REVERSE

Tejun Heo
2020-12-02T23:17:09Z

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:54:23PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> There is good reason to iterate backwards when deleting all partitions in
> del_gendisk, just like we don't in blk_drop_partitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Yeah, I was blindly keeping the iteration order. Can't find any explicit
explanation why it was that way. The reverse iteration there goes back to
the initial git import. But yeah, I can't think of any meaningful difference
which can come out of it.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

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tejun