From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129144728.GS19799@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sjmd40t3slu.fsf@pgpdev.ihtfp.org>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 14:15 Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information Derek Atkins
2010-01-29 14:47 ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-01-29 15:09 ` Rik van Riel
2010-01-29 15:38 ` Derek Atkins
2010-01-29 15:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-29 22:06 ` Greg KH
2010-01-30 4:02 ` David Newall
2010-02-03 2:10 ` Greg KH
2010-02-03 15:28 ` David Newall
2010-02-04 0:30 ` Robert Hancock
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