On 9/1/20 9:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Jens, > > this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a > really odd duck in the last years. The prime reason why most people > use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to > the block_device structure. But it also calls into the rather ill > defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the > callers. So this adds a new helper to just propagate the size, and > cleans up all kinds of mess around this area. Follow on patches > will eventuall kill of ->revalidate_disk entirely, but ther are a lot > more patches needed for that. Applied, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
