linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 4/8] block: move disk unregistration work from del

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Message-ID: <282ddaaf-eee9-3b50-2b70-6cdba33a1931@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 12 May 2021 17:09:30 +0200
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     bvanassche@....org, ming.lei@...hat.com, hch@...radead.org,
        jack@...e.cz, osandov@...com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/8] block: move disk unregistration work from
 del_gendisk() to a helper

On 5/12/21 8:46 AM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> There is quite a bit of code on del_gendisk() which relates to
> unregistering the disk, using register_disk() as an counter.
> Move all this code into a helper instead of re-writing our own,
> which we'll need later to handle errors on add_disk().
> 
> Since disk unregistrationa also deals with parition unregistration,
> provide a halper for that as well, as we'll later need this when
> adding error handling for add_disk().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> ---
>   block/genhd.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>   1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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