Re: [PATCH] cleanup gendisk handling

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 13:38:21 EST

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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:36:13PM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a patch similar to this one a while ago (and it got dropped); One
> difference is that your patch doesn't
> seem to lock the linked list... so the operation is SMP unsafe (it was
> before, but fixing that would be a
> good sideeffect of this patch)

I will do this once (if) this patch is in.
I'd rather avoid pushing too many changes in one diff.

Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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