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    SubjectRe: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1


    On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
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    > 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.

    Linus


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