From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:43:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:43:22 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:21128 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:43:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:42:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: more gendisk stuff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > No comments on races, but there's obvious one on API: doing that on > per-major basis is _wrong_. Even though you do not define "that", most likely I agree. Still, many intermediate steps are needed. For a very large number of these steps the final API is irrelevant. The project of this week is to remove all references to partitions from all drivers. Andries