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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

  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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