Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:06:49 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:49:40PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > The following patch does the following: > > - static const char *blkdevs[MAX_BLKDEV]; disappears > - get_blkdev_list, (un)register_blkdev, __bdevname > are moved from block_dev.c to genhd.c > - the third "fops" parameter of register_blkdev was unused; > now removed everywhere > - zillions of places had printk("cannot get major") upon > error return from register_blkdev; removed all of these > and inserted a single printk in register_blkdev.
IMHO that's a bad change, (un)register_blkdev should just go away completly.
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