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Dan Williams wrote: > The consensus from LSF was that bcache need not invent a new interface > when md and dm can both do the job. As mentioned in patch 7 this series > aims to be a minimal conversion. Other refactoring items like > deprecating register_lock for mddev->reconfig_mutex are deferred. > > This supports assembly of an already established cache array: > > mdadm -A /dev/md/bcache /dev/sd[ab] > > ...will create the /dev/md/bcache container and a subarray representing > the cache volume. "Flash-only", or backing-device only volumes wer...

Hi Jens, this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a really odd duck in the last years. The prime reason why most people use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to the block_device structure. But it also calls into the rather ill defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the callers. So this adds a new helper to just