# Re: \[PATCH 03/26\] block: automatically enable GENHD\_FL\_EXT\_DEVT

- From: Hannes Reinecke \<hare@suse.de\>
- Date: 2021-05-23 07:50:26 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/05/6402867
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/05/6402806/t.md

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On 5/21/21 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Automatically set the GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT flag for all disks allocated
> without an explicit number of minors.  This is what all new block
> drivers should do, so make sure it is the default without boilerplate
> code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>   block/genhd.c                    | 2 +-
>   block/partitions/core.c          | 4 ----
>   drivers/block/n64cart.c          | 2 +-
>   drivers/lightnvm/core.c          | 1 -
>   drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c | 1 -
>   drivers/nvdimm/blk.c             | 1 -
>   drivers/nvdimm/btt.c             | 1 -
>   drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c            | 1 -
>   drivers/nvme/host/core.c         | 1 -
>   drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c    | 1 -
>   10 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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