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From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linux Scsi Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up...
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:12:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021117201230.GD3280@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0211171457290.23400-100000@steklov.math.psu.edu>

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:01:06PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
> > in scsi_module.c works, but is too ugly to live (and totally defeats the
> > purpose of the new module loading code anyway).  Oh, and all the high
> 
> There is a purpose?  Seriously, "no use of ones object during init" is
> WRONG.  Rusty, remember I've told you that block devices need to be
> able to open() during init?  That's what it is.
> 
> We _might_ eventually kludge around that, but IMO the ->live checks on
> the init side are just plain wrong.

I tend to agree, and I almost wrote that in my email, but then decided I 
hadn't thought on the issue long enough to declare that and then be proven 
wrong and look like a fool.

-- 
  Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>     919-754-3700 x44233
         Red Hat, Inc. 
         1801 Varsity Dr.
         Raleigh, NC 27606
  

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-17 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-17 19:52 Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up Doug Ledford
2002-11-17 20:01 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-17 20:12   ` Doug Ledford [this message]
2002-11-17 20:16   ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-17 23:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-11-17 23:45   ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-18  8:52 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-18  9:51   ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-18 23:49     ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19  0:08       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-19 20:54         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-20 15:45           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-24 22:30             ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19  0:09       ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-19 20:58         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19  0:32       ` Alan Cox
2002-11-18 10:02   ` Roman Zippel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-19  5:52 Rusty Russell
2002-11-19  7:12 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-19 21:29   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19 22:33   ` Andries Brouwer
2002-11-19 16:06 ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-19 17:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-19 21:42   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-20 23:41   ` john slee

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