From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: hch@caldera.de, torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup gendisk handling
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:35:25 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109031835.SAA33971@vlet.cwi.nl> (raw)
From hch@ns.caldera.de Mon Sep 3 20:06:04 2001
Hi Linus,
as you probably know the gendisk handling in the current kernel is a
horrible mess. All driver have to do the linked list handling themselves,
etc..
Andries has a patchset on kernel.org that addresses most of this issues -
but it does very large API changes and is thus not acceptable for 2.4.
The appended patch tries to cleanup the gendisk handling for the in-kernel
driver a LOT, keeping all old APIs for posssible out-of-tree drivers.
Hmm - this looks almost identical to my patch 07.
Yes, a nice patch :-)
Andries
[BTW - I don't think the API changes are so large.
Now patch 01 has been applied.
Something very similar to 02 seems also a good candidate.
Maybe I have time Friday or Saturday to rediff.]
next reply other threads:[~2001-09-03 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-03 18:35 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
2001-09-03 18:45 ` [PATCH] cleanup gendisk handling Christoph Hellwig
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2001-09-03 18:05 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-03 18:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-09-03 18:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
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