Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM...

Andrew Morton
2004-02-23T03:12:32Z

"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@realitydiluted.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >>+config BLK_DEV_SR_PARTITIONS
> >>+config BLK_DEV_SR_PARTITIONS_PER_DEVICE
> >
> >
> > Do we actually need these config options? Why not hardwire it to some
> > reasonable upper bound and be done with it?
> >
> I have no problem hardwiring the number of partitions, but the
> BLK_DEV_SR_PARTITIONS should still be an option to allow the
> user to decided if they want partitioning support for their
> SCSI CDROMs. Or are you suggesting that from now on partitions
> will be supported by default?

Well we need to be able to handle both types at runtime anyway, and the
amount of added code is tiny.