From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 05/26] block: add blk_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk APIs
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 09:24:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210524072413.GC23890@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210521174407.GA25291@42.do-not-panic.com>
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:44:07PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Its not obvious to me why using this new API requires you then to
> set minors explicitly to 1, and yet here underneath we see the minors
> argument passed is 0.
>
> Nor is it clear from the documentation.
Basically for all new drivers no one should set minors at all, and the
dynamic dev_t mechanism does all the work. For converted old drivers
minors is set manually instead of being passed an an argument that
should be 0 for all new drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-24 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-21 5:50 simplify gendisk and request_queue allocation for bio based drivers Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 01/26] block: refactor device number setup in __device_add_disk Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 17:16 ` [dm-devel] " Luis Chamberlain
2021-05-24 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 7:46 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-24 7:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 02/26] block: move the DISK_MAX_PARTS sanity check into __device_add_disk Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 17:18 ` [dm-devel] " Luis Chamberlain
2021-05-23 7:48 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 03/26] block: automatically enable GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 17:22 ` [dm-devel] " Luis Chamberlain
2021-05-23 7:50 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 04/26] block: add a flag to make put_disk on partially initalized disks safer Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 17:28 ` [dm-devel] " Luis Chamberlain
2021-05-23 7:54 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 05/26] block: add blk_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk APIs Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 17:44 ` [dm-devel] " Luis Chamberlain
2021-05-24 7:24 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-05-23 7:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 06/26] brd: convert to blk_alloc_disk/blk_cleanup_disk Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 7:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-24 7:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 07/26] drbd: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 7:59 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 08/26] pktcdvd: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:00 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:50 ` [PATCH 09/26] rsxx: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:01 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 10/26] zram: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:01 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 11/26] lightnvm: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:02 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 12/26] bcache: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 6:15 ` Coly Li
2021-05-21 6:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 16:19 ` Coly Li
2021-05-23 8:04 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-23 16:20 ` Coly Li
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 13/26] dm: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:10 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-24 7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 14/26] md: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:12 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-24 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-24 8:27 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 15/26] nvdimm-blk: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:13 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 16/26] nvdimm-btt: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:14 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 17/26] nvdimm-pmem: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:14 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-07 4:43 ` Dan Williams
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 18/26] nvme-multipath: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:20 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-24 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 19/26] nfblock: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-21 8:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-05-23 8:21 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 20/26] simdisk: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:22 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 21/26] n64cart: convert to blk_alloc_disk Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:22 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 22/26] ps3vram: convert to blk_alloc_disk/blk_cleanup_disk Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:23 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 23/26] dcssblk: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:23 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 24/26] xpram: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:24 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 25/26] null_blk: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:25 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-21 5:51 ` [PATCH 26/26] block: unexport blk_alloc_queue Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-23 8:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-05-25 22:41 ` simplify gendisk and request_queue allocation for bio based drivers Ulf Hansson
2021-05-26 4:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-26 8:07 ` Ulf Hansson
2021-06-01 13:48 ` Jens Axboe
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