Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rene Herman" <> | Subject | [PATCH] drivers/block/genhd.c (partitioning), kernel 2.2.1 | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 1999 02:20:37 +0100 |
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Hello everyone ...
A few days ago I posted a patch to support MINIX subpartitions. A small thread resulted concerning what the best strategy for ordering partitions would be. We agreed that Linux's native partition types (primary, logical) should come before the other types (BSD, UNIXWARE, Solaris, MINIX), as to minimize "partition shuffling" between kernel versions.
Ernst Jan Plugge suggested assigning minors strictly by type, and I decided to implement his suggestion. The partition handlers are now called through an (ordered) table of function pointers, and this implied several changes to the handlers themselves as well. I also changed their output to be consistent amongst the handlers.
I'm unable to test the BSD, UNIXWARE and Solaris handlers myself. AFAIK, there are no functional differences from the original versions (apart from allowing multiple BSD disklabel partitions, as 2.0.36 did).
The patch is unfortunately rather large (it includes the MINIX subpartition patch). All feedback much welcome!
Regards, Rene
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