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    block: Geometry and translation hints are now useless, purge them · 2b584959
    Markus Armbruster 提交于
    There are two producers of these hints: drive_init() on behalf of
    -drive, and hd_geometry_guess().
    
    The only consumer of the hint is hd_geometry_guess().
    
    The callers of hd_geometry_guess() call it only when drive_init()
    didn't set the hints.  Therefore, drive_init()'s hints are never used.
    
    Thus, hd_geometry_guess() only ever sees hints it produced itself in a
    prior call.  Only the first call computes something, subsequent calls
    just repeat the first call's results.  However, hd_geometry_guess() is
    never called more than once: the device models don't, and the block
    device is destroyed on unplug.  Thus, dropping the repeat feature
    doesn't break anything now.
    
    If a block device wasn't destroyed on unplug and could be reused with
    a new device, then repeating old results would be wrong.  Thus,
    dropping the repeat feature prevents future breakage.
    
    This renders the hints unused.  Purge them from the block layer.
    Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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