From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] clean gendisk out of scsi ULD structs Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:14:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1183677246.3448.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070705140636.6dbabd6f.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <20070705230251.GS21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:35447 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760182AbXGEXOI (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:14:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070705230251.GS21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi , akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:02 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:06:36PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > Since gendisk will now become part of struct scsi_device, we don't need > > to store this value in any private data structs where they already store > > scsi_device. This series cleans up a few drivers which did this. > > What the hell? gendisks are *NOT* supposed to be embedded into other > data structures, you'll screw up the lifetime rules for them. Don't panic .. they're not ... we have a pointer to the gendisk in our SCSI structures (properly refcounted). The reason is historical and actually goes back to 2002 when we first got rid of the static arrays of structures we used to keep around. Doug ... don't think 'disk' when you see 'gendisk' just think of it as a useful infrastructure library. James