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Jan Höppner
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The device name formatting can be generalized and made more readable
compared to the current state. SCSI already provides a generalized way
to format many devices in the same naming scheme as DASD does, which was
introduced with commit 3e1a7ff8a0 ("block: allow disk to have extended
device number").
Use this much cleaner code from drivers/scsi/sd.c to handle the legacy
naming scheme in DASD as a replacement for the current implementation.
For easier error handling for the new function, move the gendisk free
portion of dasd_gendisk_free() out into a new function dasd_gd_free().
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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