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SubjectRe: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 06:14:53PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > 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.

Alexander / Linus meant a time order for initializations,
not an order in disk numbering.

(You refer to probe_cmos_for_drives() in ide-geometry.c
and the corresponding code in arch/i386/boot/setup.S.
I would not mind very much if that were thrown out.
First thing in 2.5.)

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