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Date:   Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:38:45 +0000
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix userspace documentation reference for
 del_gendisk()
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*Poke*

This documentation fix is not merged yet.

 Luis

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 02:06:58PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Commit b5bd357cf8b ("block: add docs for gendisk / request_queue refcount
> helpers") has a typo where it references drivers for del_gendisk() when we
> instead meant userspace, as the reference is to the userspace experience.
> This fixes this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> ---
>  block/genhd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index 0a273211fec2..9511620f558a 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -880,8 +880,8 @@ static void invalidate_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
>   * with put_disk(), which should be called after del_gendisk(), if
>   * __device_add_disk() was used.
>   *
> - * Drivers exist which depend on the release of the gendisk to be synchronous,
> - * it should not be deferred.
> + * Userspace may exist which depends on the release of the gendisk to be
> + * synchronous, it should not be deferred.
>   *
>   * Context: can sleep
>   */
> -- 
> 2.28.0
>