Re: [patch for playing] 2.5.65 patch to support > 256 disks

From: Badari Pulavarty (pbadari@us.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 20:39:48 EST


On Friday 28 March 2003 10:41 am, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:04:41AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > 2) Instead of allocating hd_struct structure for all possible partitions,
> > why not allocated them dynamically, as we see a partition ? This
> > way we could (in theory) support more than 16 partitions, if needed.
>
> This is what I plan to do.
> Of course you are welcome to do it first.
>
> Andries

Okay !! Here is my patch to add hd_structs dynamically as we add partitions.
Machine boots fine. I was able to add/delete partitions.

It is not polished yet, but any comments ?

Thanks,
Badari



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