On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:26AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 7/4/23 05:21, Jan Kara wrote: > > +struct bdev_handle { > > + struct block_device *bdev; > > + void *holder; > > +}; > > Please explain in the patch description why a holder pointer is introduced > in struct bdev_handle and how it relates to the bd_holder pointer in struct > block_device. Is one of the purposes of this patch series perhaps to add > support for multiple holders per block device? That is all in patch 0/32. Why repeat it?