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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 20:38:32 EST

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> 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

Alan

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