Re: cleanup ubd gendisk registration

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 17:57:40 EST


On 6/14/21 12:07 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this series sits on top of Jens' for-5.14/block branch and tries to
> convert ubd to the new gendisk and request_queue registration helpers.
> As part of that I found that the ide emulation code currently registers
> two gendisk for a request_queue which leads to a bunch of problems we've
> avoided in other drivers (only the mmc subsystem has a similar issue).
> Given that the legacy IDE driver isn't practically used any more and
> modern userspace doesn't hard code specific block drivers, so I think
> we can just drop it. Let me know if this is ok.

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe