Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:33:00 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister() |
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I think that is a valid argument as long as it's called "driverfs" or > something, but since the thing is clearly evolving into a "kernelfs" and > has drivers and devices as only a part of its structure knowledge, and is > used to expose various kernel hierarchies and relationships, I actually > think that it makes sense to expose the relationship of partitions to > devices.
It makes sense, but that should be done for gendisk. I.e. we should have (name, base, range) - not a node for each partition.
At least one obvious reason for oops is that thing sets ->disk_dev, which is under complete control of partitions/check.c. If anything, setting ->driverfs_dev would be legitimate - use of ->disk_dev is a bug.
Al, waiting for already merged stuff to show up in snapshots...
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