Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce device_add_disk() to kill gendisk.driverfs_dev

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Mar 09 2016 - 12:38:26 EST


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Answer the "// FIXME: remove" include/linux/genhd.h. This should be
> functionally equivalent to the previous state. Now that the WARN_ON()
> for the registration failure case is up-levelled to some drivers, they
> can take on the follow on work to handle device_add_disk() failures.
>
> Note, a full run from the kbuild robot is still pending. I'll post v2
> if it reports anything against this set on top of current -next.
>
> ---
>
> Dan Williams (3):
> block: introduce device_add_disk()
> block: convert to device_add_disk()
> block: remove ->driverfs_dev
>

Yes, no, maybe so for 4.6?