[PATCH 05/26] block: add blk_alloc_disk and blk_cleanup_disk APIs

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 5/21/21 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add two new APIs to allocate and free a gendisk including the
> request_queue for use with BIO based drivers.  This is to avoid
> boilerplate code in drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>   block/genhd.c         | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/genhd.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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