On Tue, Jul 14 2020, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> devfs is long gone, and autoscan works just fine without this these days.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <s...@kernel.org>

Happy to see this go!

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>

Thanks,
NeilBrown


> ---
>  drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | 10 ----------
>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
> index 0eb746211ed53c..6bc9b734eee6ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
> @@ -240,16 +240,6 @@ static void __init md_setup_drive(void)
>                       err = ksys_ioctl(fd, RUN_ARRAY, 0);
>               if (err)
>                       printk(KERN_WARNING "md: starting md%d failed\n", 
> minor);
> -             else {
> -                     /* reread the partition table.
> -                      * I (neilb) and not sure why this is needed, but I 
> cannot
> -                      * boot a kernel with devfs compiled in from 
> partitioned md
> -                      * array without it
> -                      */
> -                     ksys_close(fd);
> -                     fd = ksys_open(name, 0, 0);
> -                     ksys_ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART, 0);
> -             }
>               ksys_close(fd);
>       }
>  }
> -- 
> 2.27.0

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