Re: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> No problem; I'll do that today. But, I also think some of the stuff in 
> fs/partitions/check.c is bogus and should die. Partitions are not devices, 
> and shouldn't be treated as such. 

I think that is a valid argument as long as it's called "driverfs" or
something, but since the thing is clearly evolving into a "kernelfs"  and
has drivers and devices as only a part of its structure knowledge, and is
used to expose various kernel hierarchies and relationships, I actually
think that it makes sense to expose the relationship of partitions to
devices.

(Not that it has to use "struct device" to do so, of course, although I 
don't see any major reason why it couldn't..)

What's the oops due to?

		Linus