Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:14:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > Linus, is there any reason to have separate blk_dev_init()? > > Entirely due to historical reasons, and I agree with you - you might as > well get rid of it, as it doesn't work with modules. > > There _are_ ordering issues, but none that I can imagine being > really relevant.
One micro issue, Andries help me out, with the bios_disk assignment. Generally the BIOS defaults to think there is an IDE block device. Thus the only order issue that I can drag up is the classic IDE<>SCSI BIOS issue.
I know it is easy to push LILO around and remap 0x80, 0x81, 0x82, and 0x83 back and forth.
Is there a realistic way to define the default block device class to boot with a "(b)zdisk"?
Andre Hedrick The Linux IDE guy
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