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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.34 gendisk changes 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:35:05 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:05:31 -0700
From: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
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I wrote:

    It would seem that in 2.5.34 gendisk->part[0] no longer refers to the
    whole disk, but instead refers to the first partition.  Is this
    correct? There isn't a struct hd_struct that refers to the whole disk
    anymore?
    
    I'm working on porting forward the sard patch for disk statistics, so I
    want to make sure this is the intent and not an off-by-one bug. Other
    code, though, suggests it's intentional.
    
Alexander Viro replied:

    It is intentional.
    
Great -- that helps.  Is there an hd_struct for the whole disk anymore?
Are there additional changes forthcoming, or is this the extent of the
gendisk changes?

Rick
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