remove revalidate_disk()

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Wed Sep 2 10:02:49 EDT 2020


On 9/1/20 9:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a
> really odd duck in the last years.  The prime reason why most people
> use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to
> the block_device structure.  But it also calls into the rather ill
> defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the
> callers.  So this adds a new helper to just propagate the size, and
> cleans up all kinds of mess around this area.  Follow on patches
> will eventuall kill of ->revalidate_disk entirely, but ther are a lot
> more patches needed for that.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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