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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core
	devices (fwd)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:45:21 -0500
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Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:38 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> No, that's not what happens.  The genhd's parent is the scsi_device
> and 
> the queue's parent is the genhd.  You can see this immediately from
> the 
> directory layout in sysfs.  Thus:

How has this happened?  The scsi_device doesn't know anything about the
genhd; how can it hold a reference to it?  If you grep the code, you'll
see that only the ULD's (that's sd, sr, st, osst et al) know what a
gendisk is.

James