Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

From: Alexander Viro (aviro@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 21:11:58 EST


On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Good driver should not do partition-table reads in the first place.
> > Period. And frankly, the more I'm looking through that code the more I
>
> What about drivers where the partition table is the only way to recover
> the geometry the windows driver picked ? Are there better approaches I've
> missed

You don't need full parsing of partition tables for that, do you?

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