Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister() |
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > It makes sense, but that should be done for gendisk. I.e. we should have > (name, base, range) - not a node for each partition.
Actually, we _do_ want to have a node for each partition, if we want to show the things that are associated with one particular partition. And we do have those things - mounts and (onc eit's working again) LVM relationships etc.
It's a perfectly valid question to ask "what partitions are part of this extended disk?" or "which partition is the backing store for this filesystem?". Which implies that a partition is a real first-class entity, not just "one of a range".
Linus
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