Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM...

[Andrew Morton]

"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> >>+config BLK_DEV_SR_PARTITIONS
> >>+config BLK_DEV_SR_PARTITIONS_PER_DEVICE
> > 
> > 
> > Do we actually need these config options?  Why not hardwire it to some
> > reasonable upper bound and be done with it?
> >
> I have no problem hardwiring the number of partitions, but the
> BLK_DEV_SR_PARTITIONS should still be an option to allow the
> user to decided if they want partitioning support for their
> SCSI CDROMs. Or are you suggesting that from now on partitions
> will be supported by default?

Well we need to be able to handle both types at runtime anyway, and the
amount of added code is tiny.

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