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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Alain Knaff wrote:

> Appended to this mail is the "long live the struct block_device"
> patch. It includes the stuff covered in the last patch as well. The
> issue of stopping transfers in progress is not yet addressed.

Actually, both issues are not addressed.  With your patch bdev will
happily live after rmmod.  Please, wait a bit with that stuff.  I'll
post a variant tonight - still need to verify that it deals correctly
with cases like SCSI (disk going away without unregister_blkdev()).