linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] blk-integrity: drop integrity

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:56:58 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] blk-integrity: drop integrity_kobj from gendisk


Thomas,

> The embedded member integrity_kobj member of struct gendisk violates
> the assumption of the driver core that only one struct kobject should
> be embedded into another object and then manages its lifetime.
>
> As the integrity_kobj is only used to hold a few sysfs attributes it
> can be replaced by direct device_attributes and removed.

Looks good to me and passed a quick test on a couple of systems. Thanks
for cleaning this up!

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering