Re: [PATCH 05/26] block: add blk_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk APIs
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date: 2021-05-23 07:55:19
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On 5/21/21 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Add two new APIs to allocate and free a gendisk including the request_queue for use with BIO based drivers. This is to avoid boilerplate code in drivers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --- block/genhd.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/genhd.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Kernel Storage Architect hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE Software Solutions GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg HRB 36809 (AG Nürnberg), Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer