linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ->driverfs

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:05:12 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"axboe@...com" <axboe@...com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
	"linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ->driverfs_dev removal for 4.8

On 07/08/2016 03:56 PM, Williams, Dan J wrote:
> Hi Jens, please pull from:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm for-4.8/block
>
> ...to receive:
>
> The removal of ->driverfs_dev in favor of just passing the parent
> device in as a parameter to add_disk().  See below, it has received a
> "Reviewed-by" from Christoph, Bart, and Johannes.
>
> It is also a pre-requisite for Fam Zheng's work to cleanup gendisk
> uevents vs attribute visibility [1].  We would extend device_add_disk()
> to take an attribute_group list.
>
> This is based off a branch of block.git/for-4.8/drivers and has
> received a positive build success notification from the kbuild robot
> across several configs.
>
> [1]: "gendisk: Generate uevent after attribute available"
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=146725201522201&w=2

Pulled, thanks Dan.

-- 
Jens Axboe