linux-kernel - Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information

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Message-ID: <20100129144728.GS19799@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:28 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Derek Atkins <warlord@....edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

> In particular, there is now no way for a proprietary driver to access
> the gendisk partition array, to enumerate the existing partitions, or to
> get information about existing partitions.  All those interfaces are now
> GPL-Only, (whereas access to the structure members before were perfectly
> legal for non-GPL modules).  But now the partition structure is sitting
> behind the GPL-Only RCU abstraction.

Why the hell does disk driver care about partitioning in the first place?
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