Re: partition block cleanup

Roman Zippel (zippel@fh-brandenburg.de)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:29:35 +0200 (MET DST)


Hi,

> The above patch allows 'partition modules', which are a bad thing in this
> situation, since it does mean that the kernel behaviour becomes indeterminant,
> or even impossible to get the correct behaviour with a pre-compiled kernel.

The current patch prefers modules over builtin types, if we would change
this into a fixed order, you would only need a small probe routine to test
for e.g. an Acorn partition and loads the module, so a disk is always probed
in a fixed order. If I understand you right this should fix your problem.

bye, Roman

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