Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:38:38 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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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.
Linus
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