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* Re: more gendisk stuff
@ 2001-06-21 19:42 Andries.Brouwer
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From: Andries.Brouwer @ 2001-06-21 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andries.Brouwer, viro; +Cc: linux-kernel

> 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

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* more gendisk stuff
@ 2001-06-21 17:39 Andries.Brouwer
  2001-06-21 17:56 ` Alexander Viro
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From: Andries.Brouwer @ 2001-06-21 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, viro

An hour ago or so I put 07-2.4.6pre5-gendisk on ftp.kernel.org
(and rediffed the previous six patches against 2.4.6pre5).

It has add_gendisk, del_gendisk, get_gendisk, blk_gendisk[]
(a.k.a. register_gendisk, unregister_gendisk, find_gendisk),
so that one now can find the gendisk structure given a kdev_t.

Interestingly, there were complaints several places in the source
about the lack of these, but none of the complainers added them.

Al, I don't know whether you are interested in this stuff, but comments
(other than: "the stuff is full of races") are welcome.

Andries

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