On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Ob_gendisk(): Linus, why on the earth do we have this ->init() thing
> there? It should be called from driver initialization code instead of the
> middle of partition_setup(). Modules are calling it directly anyway,
> conditions wrt interrupts are same, so what's the reason for postponing
> the thing? IOW, will you accept moving the call to initialization and
> removing gendisk.init?
Yes. But I'm getting worried about too many changes now. The patch from
Stephen looked ok, although his new /proc interface wasn't, and I don't
understand the point of having a separate program to parse /proc. If it
isn't readable already, then why?
I'm making a new pre-patch.
Linus
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