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    [PATCH] beginning of probe_disk() and gendisks for floppy · 443ac9b2
    Alexander Viro authored
    That's a tricky one and large part of that stuff is temporary - it will be
    replaced as soon as we have gendisks for all block devices and get sane
    refcounting for gendisks.
    	* we add per-major lists of gendisks; get_gendisk() looks into
    appropriate list instead of looking through the list of all gendisks.
    	* we allow driver to override that search - it can call
    blk_set_probe(major, probe) and then gendisk will call probe(minor).
    blk_set_probe(major, NULL) restores the default behaviour.
    	* floppy.c switched to use of gendisks; we have one gendisk per
    disk and let floppy_find(minor) return the right one.
    	Note that final mechanism will involve a similar construction
    but floppy.c is actually the least interesting application - places
    where it will really play will include stuff like loading the right
    high-level driver when we open /dev/hdX, etc.  And it won't be major-based...
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