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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] block: add an optional probe callback to
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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On 9/3/20 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a callback to the major_names array that allows a driver to override
> how to probe for dev_t that doesn't currently have a gendisk registered.
> This will help separating the lookup of the gendisk by dev_t vs probe
> action for a not currently registered dev_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>   block/genhd.c         | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
>   include/linux/genhd.h |  5 ++++-
>   2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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