From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C81C04FF3 for ; Mon, 24 May 2021 07:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3B5561151 for ; Mon, 24 May 2021 07:24:39 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org F3B5561151 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FpTHV3jcNz3bt7 for ; Mon, 24 May 2021 17:24:38 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=none (no SPF record) smtp.mailfrom=lst.de (client-ip=213.95.11.211; helo=verein.lst.de; envelope-from=hch@lst.de; receiver=) Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FpTH65zv4z2xZH for ; Mon, 24 May 2021 17:24:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id BD6A867373; Mon, 24 May 2021 09:24:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 09:24:13 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Luis Chamberlain Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 05/26] block: add blk_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk APIs Message-ID: <20210524072413.GC23890@lst.de> References: <20210521055116.1053587-1-hch@lst.de> <20210521055116.1053587-6-hch@lst.de> <20210521174407.GA25291@42.do-not-panic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210521174407.GA25291@42.do-not-panic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, Ulf Hansson , Mike Snitzer , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Song Liu , dm-devel@redhat.com, Joshua Morris , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jiang , Maxim Levitsky , Vishal Verma , Christoph Hellwig , Christian Borntraeger , Geert Uytterhoeven , Matias Bjorling , Nitin Gupta , Vasily Gorbik , linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Alex Dubov , Heiko Carstens , Coly Li , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, drbd-dev@tron.linbit.com, Philip Kelleher , Dan Williams , Jens Axboe , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Philipp Reisner , Jim Paris , Minchan Kim , Lars Ellenberg , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:44:07PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > Its not obvious to me why using this new API requires you then to > set minors explicitly to 1, and yet here underneath we see the minors > argument passed is 0. > > Nor is it clear from the documentation. Basically for all new drivers no one should set minors at all, and the dynamic dev_t mechanism does all the work. For converted old drivers minors is set manually instead of being passed an an argument that should be 0 for all new drivers.