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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2022-01-04 08:16:47 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2022-02-02 15:49:58 +0100
commitfbdee71bb5d8d054e1bdb5af4c540f2cb86fe296 (patch)
tree46cfbed71aa40374f489df96373d2b96fcf1e0f5 /block/genhd.c
parentLinux 5.17-rc2 (diff)
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block: deprecate autoloading based on dev_t
Make the legacy dev_t based autoloading optional and add a deprecation warning. This kind of autoloading has ceased to be useful about 20 years ago. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220104071647.164918-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 626c8406f21a..6ae990ff0266 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -185,7 +185,9 @@ static struct blk_major_name {
struct blk_major_name *next;
int major;
char name[16];
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
void (*probe)(dev_t devt);
+#endif
} *major_names[BLKDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE];
static DEFINE_MUTEX(major_names_lock);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(major_names_spinlock);
@@ -275,7 +277,9 @@ int __register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
}
p->major = major;
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
p->probe = probe;
+#endif
strlcpy(p->name, name, sizeof(p->name));
p->next = NULL;
index = major_to_index(major);
@@ -679,6 +683,7 @@ static ssize_t disk_badblocks_store(struct device *dev,
return badblocks_store(disk->bb, page, len, 0);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
void blk_request_module(dev_t devt)
{
unsigned int major = MAJOR(devt);
@@ -698,6 +703,7 @@ void blk_request_module(dev_t devt)
/* Make old-style 2.4 aliases work */
request_module("block-major-%d", MAJOR(devt));
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD */
/*
* print a full list of all partitions - intended for places where the root