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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cleanup gendisk handling
    From hch@ns.caldera.de Mon Sep  3 20:06:04 2001

Hi Linus,

as you probably know the gendisk handling in the current kernel is a
horrible mess. All driver have to do the linked list handling themselves,
etc..

Andries has a patchset on kernel.org that addresses most of this issues -
but it does very large API changes and is thus not acceptable for 2.4.

The appended patch tries to cleanup the gendisk handling for the in-kernel
driver a LOT, keeping all old APIs for posssible out-of-tree drivers.

Hmm - this looks almost identical to my patch 07.
Yes, a nice patch :-)

Andries


[BTW - I don't think the API changes are so large.
Now patch 01 has been applied.
Something very similar to 02 seems also a good candidate.
Maybe I have time Friday or Saturday to rediff.]


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