Re: [PATCH] Remove <linux/genhd.h> from user-visible headers.

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Mar 12 2008 - 13:19:02 EST


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 05:52:56PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It was all wrapped in '#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK' anyway, so userspace was
> getting nothing useful out of it. And the special #ifndef __KERNEL__
> version of 'struct partition' makes me inclined to promote an attitude
> of violence...
>
> Stick some comments on some of the #endifs too, while we're at it.

Right... Actually, if that goes in... the next step is to take fs/partitions
to block and evict more than a half of genhd.h to block/blk.h and relevant
partition handlers. I have a long-rotten patch for that, will resurrect...
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