Hello, again. This is the second take of unify-disk-part-handling patchset. Changes from the last take[L] are... * adapted to blk-for-2.6.28. * devt alloc path simplification in 0013. For general description of the patchset, please read description of the last take[L]. This patchset is against... blk-for-2.6.28 (9abd7c437c02e7448fb1d2d3cfc0b9c1ab77cf2d) + [1] klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries + [2] use-klist-for-class-device-list-and-implement-iterator + [3] block-misc-fixes-and-improvements patchset + [4] block-extended-devt patchset, take #3 and available in the following git tree. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=block-unify-disk-part git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git block-unify-disk-part and the combined diffstat follows. block/blk-core.c | 89 ++++----- block/blk-integrity.c | 5 block/blk-merge.c | 12 - block/blk-sysfs.c | 4 block/cmd-filter.c | 12 - block/genhd.c | 402 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- block/ioctl.c | 4 drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 6 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 16 - drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c | 2 drivers/block/nbd.c | 4 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 2 drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 16 - drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 2 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 2 drivers/md/dm.c | 31 +-- drivers/md/linear.c | 9 - drivers/md/md.c | 15 - drivers/md/multipath.c | 9 - drivers/md/raid0.c | 9 - drivers/md/raid1.c | 9 - drivers/md/raid10.c | 9 - drivers/md/raid5.c | 9 - drivers/scsi/sd.c | 83 ++++++--- fs/block_dev.c | 79 +++----- fs/partitions/check.c | 165 +++++++++--------- fs/partitions/check.h | 4 include/linux/genhd.h | 247 +++++++++++---------------- 28 files changed, 610 insertions(+), 646 deletions(-) Thanks. -- tejun [L] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/14/63 [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725706 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725708 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725724 [4] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/25/108 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html