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

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 01:09:19 EST


On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > Is the order not dependent on how ./drivers/block/genhd.c orders the
> > device_init() and more so refined ./drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
> > blk_dev_init()? Thus the link order of objects appears to be a non-issue.
> >
> > Did I miss something?
>
> You missed the email where Alex suggested we get rid of "blk_dev_init()"
> and use the generic init sequence instead..

Oh, caught a refresh on that point in the old mail........
That is what I proposed that all block devices function with a packet
protocol and require both IDE and SCSI plug into it.........

I am back up to speed............

Skip the reply to this..........

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

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