Am 08.03.21 um 08:49 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > 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? > Hi Christoph, yes, sounds like a good idea. I will have a look at this.