Re: [PATCH 5/5] block: remove (__)blkdev_reread_part as an exported API

Stefan Haberland
2019-11-07T13:27:42Z

On 06.11.19 16:14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> In general drivers should never mess with partition tables directly.
> Unfortunately s390 and loop do for somewhat historic reasons, but they
> can use bdev_disk_changed directly instead when we export it as they
> satisfy the sanity checks we have in __blkdev_reread_part.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Hi,

tested (the whole patchset) with DASD on s390 and for the DASD part:

Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>