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Message-ID: <20070705230251.GS21478@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:02:51 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...elEye.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] clean gendisk out of scsi ULD structs

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.
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