Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:06:59 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > Ob_gendisk(): Linus, why on the earth do we have this ->init() thing > > there? It should be called from driver initialization code instead of the > > middle of partition_setup(). Modules are calling it directly anyway, > > conditions wrt interrupts are same, so what's the reason for postponing > > the thing? IOW, will you accept moving the call to initialization and > > removing gendisk.init? > > Yes. But I'm getting worried about too many changes now. The patch from > Stephen looked ok, although his new /proc interface wasn't, and I don't > understand the point of having a separate program to parse /proc. If it > isn't readable already, then why? > > I'm making a new pre-patch.
OK, could somebody explain where does IDE call ide_geninit() if built as module? And if it (apparently) doesn't, do we need it in built-in case? Andre, could you comment on that? Cheers, Al
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