Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:50:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PATCH - change to blkdev->queue calling triggers BUG in md.c |
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Now it seems Al is doing all the work, so I can just sit back and watch. > But I hope he makes precisely this: a kernel that does not do any > partition reading of its own.
I disagree, if only because of backwards competibility issues.
On a conceptual level I think you're right. However, it will break too many standard installations as is.
If/when we have a reasonable initrd setup that is usable, we could do some automatic partitioning of devices that are available at bootup to minimize the impact, but I don't think it is realistic otherwise.
Linus
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