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



On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > the geometry the windows driver picked ? Are there better approaches I've
> > > missed
> >
> > You don't need full parsing of partition tables for that, do you?
>
> I need to verify its a PC table and yank the geometry

== you need the first sector. And I don't think that we really have to go
through ll_rw_blk here - we are in the driver, after all, so we shouldn't
need anything fancy to feed request to the disk, no?


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