linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce device_add_disk() to kill gendisk.driverfs

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:38:12 -0800
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce device_add_disk() to kill gendisk.driverfs_dev

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> Answer the "// FIXME: remove" include/linux/genhd.h.  This should be
> functionally equivalent to the previous state.  Now that the WARN_ON()
> for the registration failure case is up-levelled to some drivers, they
> can take on the follow on work to handle device_add_disk() failures.
>
> Note, a full run from the kbuild robot is still pending.  I'll post v2
> if it reports anything against this set on top of current -next.
>
> ---
>
> Dan Williams (3):
>       block: introduce device_add_disk()
>       block: convert to device_add_disk()
>       block: remove ->driverfs_dev
>

Yes, no, maybe so for 4.6?