Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:18:31 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5 |
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:52:14PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > This patch should allow the disk partition handlers to be > compiled as loadable modules. > > If this change looks good to everyone, then, the next change > after making sure that the modules work would be to add demand loading > of the modules via kmod. I am thinking of naming the demand loaded > module names as "partition-12345678", where "12345678" is the hexadecimal > representation of the first four bytes of the partition.
There is no reason why the first four bytes of a partition would have any particular value. (Also, as modules these things are a bit superfluous. It is already possible to add partitions of arbitrary type from userspace, so the compiled-in kernel part is only to enable booting without initrd trickery.)
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