On 3/19/2010 10:40 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: >>> Regardless of all that, the default in-kernel partition table >>> handling, and the partition table parser code will not be replaced by >>> userspace. But it should be possible to delegate all that to >>> userspace, on systems which can handle that. This is not reliable >>> possible today. >> >> Why not? > > Because the kernel might scan again for devices with removable media, > or some tool may request a kernel partition scan. We need a global > default for new devices, and a per-device setting to control the > partition scanning behavior. I mean why not entirely replace the kernel partition handling with userspace? Stop building the partition recognition code in the kernel at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
