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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/19] md: use __register_blkdev to allocate devices on demand
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:53 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> Use the simpler mechanism attached to major_name to allocate a brd device
> when a currently unregistered minor is accessed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>