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RE: Removeable Media, partitions and devfs?

To: "'Richard Gooch'" <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Kevin P. Fleming'" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Removeable Media, partitions and devfs?
From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:07:49 +0300
Cc: "'Paul Bristow'" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In-reply-to: <200112141810.fBEIA6k05971@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> OK, I've looked at this, and the appended patch should fix this. This
> superceeds my earlier patch. Now, if the driver passes size==0 and it
> flags the media as removable, then the device directory and "disc"
> entry will be created (if not already), and any old partitions are
> removed.

What is the status of this patch? It is independent of any pending
ide-floppy changes (if any) and it allows cleaning up other drivers to
avoid horrible flood of "errors" in logs.

Regards

-andrej

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