[PATCH] md.c
AAAARGH. OK, I've got it to work with the current tree, but... I don't like the lifetime rules - both old and new ones. Summary: * we create a gendisk upon attempt to open or upon successful attempt to run (which _can_ happen without open). * we never remove them until the rmmod (or ever). * mddev is held by gendisk. The source of trouble is our API - ioctls on possibly unconfigured devices when no IO is possible, potentially setting up this (or another, or many other) devices. I _think_ we can get the old rules (mddev exists when somebody holds it open or when it runs or when somebody is looking at it funny), but the way I see will take more messing with driverfs objects than I want right now. Notice that current API is, was and will be ripe with interesting races - it really ought to be replaced with something saner, but that would take serious modifications of userland tools. I'll talk with Neil about possible solution, this patch just gets it back to life.
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