Re: [PATCHSET v2 block/for-next] writeback: prepare for cgroup writeback support

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:19:45AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This needs a rebase over my "backing_dev_info cleanups" series, which
> starts to sort out the bdi lifetime issues.  I think this series is

Shouldn't be a problem.

> fine to go over just that, but before any bigger bdi changes we'll
> also need to sort out the rest of the lifetime issues.  I have some
> WIP patches for that which I'll be able to post soon.

Sure, remaining uses should really pin everything down to the
request_queue.  That said, this patchset shouldn't affect the lifetime
management of bdi's.  Nothing spills out of bdi proper.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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