[Drbd-dev] simplify gendisk and request_queue allocation for bio based drivers

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Tue Jun 1 15:48:09 CEST 2021


On 5/20/21 11:50 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series is the first part of cleaning up lifetimes and allocation of
> the gendisk and request_queue structure.  It adds a new interface to
> allocate the disk and queue together for bio based drivers, and a helper
> for cleanup/free them when a driver is unloaded or a device is removed.
> 
> Together this removes the need to treat the gendisk and request_queue
> as separate entities for bio based drivers.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe



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