Re: 2.5.34 gendisk changes

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 21:35:05 EST


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Rick Lindsley wrote:

> It would seem that in 2.5.34 gendisk->part[0] no longer refers to the
> whole disk, but instead refers to the first partition. Is this
> correct? There isn't a struct hd_struct that refers to the whole disk
> anymore?
>
> I'm working on porting forward the sard patch for disk statistics, so I
> want to make sure this is the intent and not an off-by-one bug. Other
> code, though, suggests it's intentional.

It is intentional.

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