Hello, Dan.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 02:29:30PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

Before spending effort trying to flush the destruction of old bdi
instances before new ones are registered, is it rather time to
complete the conversion of sd to only use dynamically allocated devt?

I think that probably would be too disruptive to userland, both
programs and humans, that has been seeing the 8:N numbers forever now.
I haven't been following this particular issue but in general I think
we should switch to the regular "a depdendee object is pinned till all
the dependents are gone" pattern.

Thanks.

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tejun