[PATCH] block device size cleanups
for partitioned devices we use ->nr_sect to find the size; blk_size[] is still used for things like floppy.c, etc.; that will go away later. There was only one place (do_open()) that needed it - the rest uses ->bd_inode->i_size now. So blkdev_size_in_bytes() is gone - it's expanded in its only caller. Same place (do_open()) finds the partition offset and stores it in new field ->bd_offset. As the result, call of get_gendisk() is gone from the IO path - in blk_partition_remap() we just add ->bd_offset. Additionally, we take driver probing (get_blkfops()) outside of ->bd_sem (again, do_open()) - that will allow to kill ad-hackery in check_partitions() (opening bdev by hand).
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