linux-kernel - Re: cleanup ubd gendisk registration

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Message-ID: <920a6605-f920-ef10-55a0-733219abee6b@kernel.dk>
Date:   Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:57:35 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
Cc:     linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cleanup ubd gendisk registration

On 6/14/21 12:07 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series sits on top of Jens' for-5.14/block branch and tries to
> convert ubd to the new gendisk and request_queue registration helpers.
> As part of that I found that the ide emulation code currently registers
> two gendisk for a request_queue which leads to a bunch of problems we've
> avoided in other drivers (only the mmc subsystem has a similar issue).
> Given that the legacy IDE driver isn't practically used any more and
> modern userspace doesn't hard code specific block drivers, so I think
> we can just drop it.  Let me know if this is ok.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe