Re: Removeable Media, partitions and devfs?

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin P. Fleming writes:
> > > So, let me get this right (I haven't looked closely at ide-floppy, so
> > > bear with me): when there is no media present, the driver sets the
> > > size to zero at revalidate time, even if previously the size was
> > > non-zero?
> >
> >
> > At the moment no.  But it could :-)
> 
> Are you sure that's a reasonable thing to do? It seems that the size
> variable should accurately reflect the size of the device at that
> moment, and if it doesn't who's to say that won't cause other side
> effects in the grok_partitions and related code in the future? Seems
> a bit risky to me, "overloading" this variable to make sure that the
> devfs code works in the way we all want it to.

Actually, that variable was already overloaded to stop
grok_partitions() from reading a partition table.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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