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    [PATCH] bdev->bd_disk introduced · 5682bcc6
    Alexander Viro authored
    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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