Re: [PATCH 01/26] block: refactor device number setup in __device_add_disk

Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-23T07:46:08Z

On 5/21/21 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Untangle the mess around blk_alloc_devt by moving the check for
> the used allocation scheme into the callers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> block/blk.h | 4 +-
> block/genhd.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> block/partitions/core.c | 15 +++++--
> 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>
... and also fixes an issue with GENHD_FL_UP remained set in an error
path in __device_add_disk().

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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