[PATCH] preparation to use of driverfs refcounts, part 2 - disk
* disk->disk_dev is initialized in alloc_disk(), device_add()'d in add_disk(), device_del()'d in unregister_disk() and device_put() in put_disk(). * devices of partitions are made its children. * attributes of disk one: dev (dev_t of the thing), range (number of minors) and size (in sectors). * attributes of partition ones: dev (ditto), start (in sectors) and size (in sectors). * disk devices are put on a new bus - "block" * if caller of add_disk() had set disk->driverfs_dev, we set symlinks: "device" from disk to underlying device and "block" from underlying device to disk. * ->release() of disk_dev frees disk and disk->part. At that point we have sane driverfs subtree for each gendisk and refcount of its root (disk->disk_dev) can act as gendisk refcount.
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