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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:01:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up...
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Doug Ledford wrote:

> in scsi_module.c works, but is too ugly to live (and totally defeats the
> purpose of the new module loading code anyway).  Oh, and all the high

There is a purpose?  Seriously, "no use of ones object during init" is
WRONG.  Rusty, remember I've told you that block devices need to be
able to open() during init?  That's what it is.

We _might_ eventually kludge around that, but IMO the ->live checks on
the init side are just plain wrong.

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