Re: Time to make dynamically allocated devt the default for scsi disks?

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Hello, Dan.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 02:29:30PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Before spending effort trying to flush the destruction of old bdi
> instances before new ones are registered, is it rather time to
> complete the conversion of sd to only use dynamically allocated devt?

I think that probably would be too disruptive to userland, both
programs and humans, that has been seeing the 8:N numbers forever now.
I haven't been following this particular issue but in general I think
we should switch to the regular "a depdendee object is pinned till all
the dependents are gone" pattern.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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