Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:28 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information |
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> In particular, there is now no way for a proprietary driver to access > the gendisk partition array, to enumerate the existing partitions, or to > get information about existing partitions. All those interfaces are now > GPL-Only, (whereas access to the structure members before were perfectly > legal for non-GPL modules). But now the partition structure is sitting > behind the GPL-Only RCU abstraction.
Why the hell does disk driver care about partitioning in the first place?
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