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Message-ID: <9ea470500811030956k209b2f2ci10bcde1ea4ac7334@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:56:01 +0100 From: "Borislav Petkov" <petkovbb@...glemail.com> To: "Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org> Cc: axboe@...nel.dk, bzolnier@...il.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ide-floppy partitions Hi On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote: > Borislav Petkov wrote: >> can you guys please ACK/NACK this so that we can have an agreed upon solution >> and so that I can stop applying it ontop of current git before testing any >> further. > > Ah... right. I missed removable devices. I think it would be better to > just expand the table rather than recursing into __blkdev_get() again. > I'll try to come up with cleaner solution. Sounds good. It should simply rescan partitions upon media change before it does disk_get_part so that the ptbl is updated. > Also, I don't think the > discontinuous partition would be a problem. ptbl is expanded to the > highest numbered partition not the number of partitions. I'll test that > too. Thanks. You don't have to. I already did that with a harddrive in a external case over usb and it works since upon connection the usb core rescans partitions and ptbl is valid then. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris -- 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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