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Re: [GIT PULL] ->driverfs_dev removal for 4.8

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On 07/08/2016 03:56 PM, Williams, Dan J wrote:
> Hi Jens, please pull from:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm for-4.8/block
>
> ...to receive:
>
> The removal of ->driverfs_dev in favor of just passing the parent
> device in as a parameter to add_disk().  See below, it has received a
> "Reviewed-by" from Christoph, Bart, and Johannes.
>
> It is also a pre-requisite for Fam Zheng's work to cleanup gendisk
> uevents vs attribute visibility [1].  We would extend device_add_disk()
> to take an attribute_group list.
>
> This is based off a branch of block.git/for-4.8/drivers and has
> received a positive build success notification from the kbuild robot
> across several configs.
>
> [1]: "gendisk: Generate uevent after attribute available"
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=146725201522201&w=2

Pulled, thanks Dan.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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[GIT PULL] ->driverfs_dev removal for 4.8 "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-07-09 00:00 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] ->driverfs_dev removal for 4.8 Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-07-09 00:10 +0200

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