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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:50:44 +1000
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Subject: [PATCH 013 of 29] md: Don't reject HOT_REMOVE_DISK request for an array that is not yet started.
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There is really no need for this test here, and there are valid
cases for selectively removing devices from an array that
it not actually active.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/md.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/md.c	2008-06-27 16:20:38.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c	2008-06-27 16:22:01.000000000 +1000
@@ -4300,9 +4300,6 @@ static int hot_remove_disk(mddev_t * mdd
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
 	mdk_rdev_t *rdev;
 
-	if (!mddev->pers)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	rdev = find_rdev(mddev, dev);
 	if (!rdev)
 		return -ENXIO;