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SubjectRe: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1
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> In fact, for floppies we could probably just get rid of the disk change
> detection, and nobody would ever even notice. Not that I'm advocating

They would

> this: I think detecting disk changes is a good thing anyway, I'm just
> saying that if I had done this originally, I wouldn't ever have bothered.

You'd have been caught by changing disk during a writeback not failing all
the further writebacks with an error. The buffer flushing only saves you
from read detect failures. A media change detect on a mistimed disk
change when writing is a life saver


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