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

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[ adding Bart back to the cc ]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:20 AM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
> I like it.  I still think the bdi registration code should be in
> charge of taking the extra reference on the disk device's parent to
> isolate / make clear why the extra reference is being acquired, but I
> won't lose sleep if Jens takes your smaller change.
>
> Thanks James!

Bart, do you have a test configuration already set up for this case.
Can you give the 2 patches from James a try?

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9278201/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9279513/
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