From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister()
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:42:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021009204248.GA22001@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210091358100.8980-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:00:05PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
> fact that it exists?
A partition has an underlying device, a start and a length.
It may have a label or volume id.
It has a partition number (the 7 of hda7) that can be assigned.
It may have substructure on the partition level, like a
DOS-type partition (BSD slice) with BSD subpartitions.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-09 0:57 Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 0:57 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 0:57 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 0:57 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 1:04 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 16:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 17:24 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 17:26 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 17:46 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-10 21:19 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-09 18:01 ` Jeff Muizlelaar
2002-10-09 17:33 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 17:47 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 18:00 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 19:02 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 19:26 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 20:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 21:45 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 22:31 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-10 18:04 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-10 18:49 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-11 13:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 23:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-10 7:11 ` Mike Anderson
2002-10-09 20:42 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2002-10-15 22:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-09 18:02 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-09 18:04 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-09 0:57 ` Patrick Mochel
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210111725240.14124-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>
2002-10-12 0:47 ` Roman Zippel
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