On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Ob_gendisk(): Linus, why on the earth do we have this ->init() thing
> > there? It should be called from driver initialization code instead of the
> > middle of partition_setup(). Modules are calling it directly anyway,
> > conditions wrt interrupts are same, so what's the reason for postponing
> > the thing? IOW, will you accept moving the call to initialization and
> > removing gendisk.init?
>
> Yes. But I'm getting worried about too many changes now. The patch from
> Stephen looked ok, although his new /proc interface wasn't, and I don't
> understand the point of having a separate program to parse /proc. If it
> isn't readable already, then why?
>
> I'm making a new pre-patch.
OK, could somebody explain where does IDE call ide_geninit() if built as
module? And if it (apparently) doesn't, do we need it in built-in case?
Andre, could you comment on that?
Cheers,
Al
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