linux-kernel - stop using ioctl_by_bdev for file system access to CDROMs

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:12:17 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Tim Waugh <tim@...erelk.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: stop using ioctl_by_bdev for file system access to CDROMs

Hi Jens,

except for the DASD case under discussion the last users of ioctl_by_bdev
are the file system drivers that want to query CDROM information using
ioctls.  This series switches them to use function calls directly into
the CDROM midlayer instead, which implies:

 - adding a cdrom_device_info pointer to the gendisk, so that file systems
   can find it without going to the low-level driver first
 - ensuring that the CDROM midlayer (which isn't a lot of code) is built
   in if the file systems are built in so that they can actually call the
   exported functions