From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:43:44 -0700
Subject: Partitions and end-to-end protection
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015@02:41:43PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> writes:
> 
> >> The driver did it this way because we need a disk allocated before we
> >> can subscribe to block integrity extensions.
> 
> The gendisk is a prerequisite by virtue of the integrity profile hanging
> off of it.

Having one allocated is.  But why do we need to have it added (at which
point it is live)?