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On 9/3/20 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use the simpler mechanism attached to major_name to allocate a brd device

md device? Maybe?

> when a currently unregistered minor is accessed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
> ---
>   drivers/md/md.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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