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From: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/9] Remove get_device() / put_device() pair from
 scsi_request_fn()
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:36:31 +0000
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On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 14:51 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Now that all scsi_request_fn() callers hold a reference on the
> SCSI device that function is invoked for

What makes you think that this is a true statement?  The usual caller is
the block layer, which doesn't really know anything about the
sdev->sdev_gendev.

James