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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html