Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:50:18 +0100 (MET) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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> the prototype changes you did which make absolutely no sense > to get into 2.5 now when the functions will disappear before 2.6.
Maybe you are right. But as I said, my goal is to give us a 32-bit dev_t. It is not necessary to eliminate register_blkdev now, or before 2.6, in order to reach that goal. I agree completely that it should go away, and I moved it in front of the function it is going to be merged with.
In fact I started on the patch to remove it, but the patch got too large. Many places do register_blkdev early and blk_register_region later. If the region is taken already then allocated memory must be freed etc. Trivial work, but a largish patch. Better to divide the work in steps.
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