Re: [PATCH 3/8] block,ide: simplify bdops->set_capacity() to->unlock_native_capacity()

[David Miller]

From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:09:29 +0200

> bdops->set_capacity() is unnecessarily generic.  All that's required
> is a simple one way notification to lower level driver telling it to
> try to unlock native capacity.  There's no reason to pass in target
> capacity or return the new capacity.  The former is always the
> inherent native capacity and the latter can be handled via the usual
> device resize / revalidation path.  In fact, the current API is always
> used that way.
> 
> Replace ->set_capacity() with ->unlock_native_capacity() which take
> only @disk and doesn't return anything.  IDE which is the only current
> user of the API is converted accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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