Hi DASD maintainers, I've recently changed the life time rules for struct block_device so that is is a long-living instead of an ephemeral structure, that is the whole device block_device exists from the time the disk is alloced until it is feed, and the partitions exist from as soon as they are scanned. With this the blkdev_get in the DASD driver should not be required, but there seems to be a lot of magic that accounts of it in the open count. Any chance one of you maintainers could try to remove it to further simplify our open and liftetime rules?
