On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Linus, is there any reason to have separate blk_dev_init()?
>
> Entirely due to historical reasons, and I agree with you - you might as
> well get rid of it, as it doesn't work with modules.
>
> There _are_ ordering issues, but none that I can imagine being
> really relevant.
One micro issue, Andries help me out, with the bios_disk assignment.
Generally the BIOS defaults to think there is an IDE block device.
Thus the only order issue that I can drag up is the classic IDE<>SCSI
BIOS issue.
I know it is easy to push LILO around and remap 0x80, 0x81, 0x82, and 0x83
back and forth.
Is there a realistic way to define the default block device class to boot
with a "(b)zdisk"?
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
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