From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 19:20:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 19:20:38 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:50962 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 19:20:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEEBBE7.40401@evision-ventures.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 00:17:11 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Viro CC: Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] change of ->bd_op->open() semantics In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Alexander Viro napisa?: > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, I've already sent a patch that does (1) and (2) (last one sent on > Wednesday), but it doesn't show up on bkbits. If there were any problems > with it - please, tell. If not - I can > * resend it, following it by (3) > * send (3) alone > * wait for 2.5.18, rediff and send (1)--(3). > Take your pick... > > I'd definitely like to have a testing point between (3) and (4)--(7), so > unless you are going to release 2.5.18 right now I'd prefer to get (1)--(3) > into it... I would love to be warned about it, since the ATA code is very well tricky in the way in esp. partition scanning goes on. Plese not as well the the recently added attach() method for ATA/ATAPI device type drivers may very well come in between as well. (patch nr. 70.)