Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5 | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:06:07 +0000 (GMT) |
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Guest section DW writes: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:52:14PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > > > This patch should allow the disk partition handlers to be > > compiled as loadable modules. > > > > If this change looks good to everyone, then, the next change > > after making sure that the modules work would be to add demand loading > > of the modules via kmod. I am thinking of naming the demand loaded > > module names as "partition-12345678", where "12345678" is the hexadecimal > > representation of the first four bytes of the partition. > > There is no reason why the first four bytes of a partition > would have any particular value.
And who's to say that the first four bytes of the first sector of a hard drive have any significance in any case? Some partition tables are stored in sector 6, others in the first sector, etc. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ |
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