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Message-Id: <20080206.224245.228156843.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:42:45 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: gregkh@...e.de Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kay.sievers@...y.org Subject: Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:44:07 -0800 > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> > > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:47:38 -0800 > > > > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:06:18PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > > > I redid the bisect to make sure it absolutely was that specific > > > > changeset, and it is. > > > > > > Thanks for doing that, I'll let you know when I have a patch to test. > > > > I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute. > > > > Look in fs/partitions/check.c:add_partition() where it tests the > > ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK flag. > > So, if you just comment out that whole "if (flags & > ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK)" chunk, does the oops go away? I think that is > the real solution here as I don't see what this attribute is supposed to > be showing. See my other reply, it's supposed to just exist and be a zero length file. udev looks for it to determine which partition is the "whole disk" partition -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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