Re: [PATCH 05/26] block: add blk_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk APIs

Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-23T07:55:16Z

On 5/21/21 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add two new APIs to allocate and free a gendisk including the
> request_queue for use with BIO based drivers. This is to avoid
> boilerplate code in drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> block/genhd.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/genhd.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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