Hi Linus, On top of the zoned changes (for-5.5/zoned), here is a patchset that continues the work that Jan Kara started to thoroughly cleanup and consolidate how we handle rescans and revalidations. Please pull! git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git tags/for-5.5/disk-revalidate-20191122 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Hellwig (6): block: refactor rescan_partitions block: merge invalidate_partitions into rescan_partitions block: move rescan_partitions to fs/block_dev.c block: fix bdev_disk_changed for non-partitioned devices block: remove (__)blkdev_reread_part as an exported API block: move clearing bd_invalidated into check_disk_size_change block/ioctl.c | 37 ++------- block/partition-generic.c | 180 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/block/loop.c | 13 +-- drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c | 4 +- fs/block_dev.c | 48 ++++++++--- include/linux/fs.h | 4 - include/linux/genhd.h | 5 +- 7 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe