Re: 2.5.70 add_disk(disk) re-registering disk->queue->elevator.kobj (bug?!)

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:06:13 +0100


On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:00:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> According to Al, we have a significant number of drivers in the tree in
> which multiple gendisks shared the same queue. Sometimes because that's a
> logical mapping onto how the hardware behaves.

... on top of that, we have queues with no gendisk ever registered.
SCSI tapes, for one things.
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