[PATCH] bdev->bd_disk introduced
There we go - now we can put a reference to gendisk into block_device. Which we do in do_open(). Most of the callers of get_gendisk() are simply using bdev->bd_disk now (and most of the put_disk() calls introduced on previous step disappear). We also put that pointer into struct request - ->rq_disk. That allows to get rid of disk_index() kludges in md.c (we simply count relevant IO in the struct gendisk fields) and kill the export of get_gendisk(). Notice that by now we can move _all_ IO counters into gendisk. That will kill a bunch of per-major arrays and more importantly, allow to merge sard in clean way. FWIW, we probably could show them as disk/partitions attributes in driverfs...
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