From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:46:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:46:29 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:9641 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:46:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:45:47 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup gendisk handling Message-ID: <20010903204547.A820@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200109031835.SAA33971@vlet.cwi.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109031835.SAA33971@vlet.cwi.nl>; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:35:25PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:35:25PM +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > Hmm - this looks almost identical to my patch 07. > Yes, a nice patch :-) Although this patch is obviously inspired by your patch, there is a number of small differnces: * I do not have the major argument to add_gendisk/del_gendisk that you remove again in one of your later patches * I don't mess at all with the array of gendisks - that is a 2.5 issue. * I move all gendisk handling to drivers/block/genhd.c * I do not inline theseslow-path routines :) Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.