Re: don't require a struct block_device to submit a bio

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On 08/23/2017 11:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> this series removes the need to have a struct block_device ready to
> submit a bio.   We basically don't use it anywhere in the block stack
> anyway - we always go for the gendisk or request_queue.  The only
> exception is partition remapping for which we'll now need an additional
> partition index.  This helps with cases where we submit I/O from a
> character device (nvme or lightnvm passthrough) or a different block
> device (upcoming nvme multipath support).

Added for 4.14, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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