On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:52:14PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
>
> This patch should allow the disk partition handlers to be
> compiled as loadable modules.
>
> If this change looks good to everyone, then, the next change
> after making sure that the modules work would be to add demand loading
> of the modules via kmod. I am thinking of naming the demand loaded
> module names as "partition-12345678", where "12345678" is the hexadecimal
> representation of the first four bytes of the partition.
There is no reason why the first four bytes of a partition
would have any particular value.
(Also, as modules these things are a bit superfluous.
It is already possible to add partitions of arbitrary
type from userspace, so the compiled-in kernel part
is only to enable booting without initrd trickery.)
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