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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 21:53:21 EST

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> == you need the first sector. And I don't think that we really have to go
> through ll_rw_blk here - we are in the driver, after all, so we shouldn't
> need anything fancy to feed request to the disk, no?

I need to generate a request block. Doing anything but putting a request
on the queues would add special cases to the main code paths. Not on. So
I might as well use ll_rw_blk

Alan

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