On 08/23/2017 11:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Jens, > > this series removes the need to have a struct block_device ready to > submit a bio. We basically don't use it anywhere in the block stack > anyway - we always go for the gendisk or request_queue. The only > exception is partition remapping for which we'll now need an additional > partition index. This helps with cases where we submit I/O from a > character device (nvme or lightnvm passthrough) or a different block > device (upcoming nvme multipath support). Added for 4.14, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
