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2007-05-21partitions/LDM: build fixJeff Garzik
This from a "tested" patch... Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disksAnton Altaparmakov
This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones. The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be recognized and parsed successfully. Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing. Cc: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org> Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11small cleanup in gpt partition handlingOlaf Hering
Remove unused argument in is_pmbr_valid() Remove unneeded initialization of local variable legacy_mbr Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11Let SYSV68_PARTITION default to yes on VME onlyGeert Uytterhoeven
Don't enable SYSV68 partition table support on all m68k boxes by default, only on Motorola VME boards. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08partition: add support for sysv68 partitionsPhilippe De Muyter
Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition (slices in motorola doc). Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07mm: optimize acorn partition truncatePeter Zijlstra
invalidate_bdev() is superfluous when truncate_inode_pages() is also called. do call invalidate_bh_lrus() though, to avoid stale pointers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07mm: remove destroy_dirty_buffers from invalidate_bdev()Peter Zijlstra
Remove the destroy_dirty_buffers argument from invalidate_bdev(), it hasn't been used in 6 years (so akpm says). find * -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep -l invalidate_bdev | while read file; do quilt add $file; sed -ie 's/invalidate_bdev(\([^,]*\),[^)]*)/invalidate_bdev(\1)/g' $file; done Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07mm: make read_cache_page synchronousNick Piggin
Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls. I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7 possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return with a !uptodate page. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-03-16[PATCH] change misleading EFI partition support descriptionJohannes Berg
Remove the misleading "Presently only useful on the IA-64 platform" text from the EFI partition Kconfig. EFI partitions are also used by Apple on their Intel-based machines and thus you need EFI partition support if you (for example) want to attach such a machine in target disk mode. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-16[PATCH] fix rescan_partitions to return errors properlysuzuki
The only error code which comes from the partition checkers is -1, when they finds an EIO. As per the discussion, ENOMEM values were ignored, as they might scare the users. So, with the current code, we end up returning -1 and not EIO for the ioctl() calls. Which doesn't give any clue to the user of what went wrong. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-08[PATCH] check_partition(): fix error checksuzuki
Fix inverted check introduced in 57881dd9df40b76dc7fc6a0d13fd75f337accb32 "Fix check_partition routines". Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16Driver: remove redundant kobject_unregister checksMariusz Kozlowski
Here is a patch that removes all redundant kobject_unregister argument checks. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Update defconfig. [SPARC64]: Add PCI MSI support on Niagara. [SPARC64] IRQ: Use irq_desc->chip_data instead of irq_desc->handler_data [SPARC64]: Add obppath sysfs attribute for SBUS and PCI devices. [PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.
2007-02-11[PATCH] msdos partitions: fix logic error in AIX detectionOlaf Hering
Correct the AIX magic check to let 'echo > /dev/sdb' actually work. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] relax check for AIX in msdos partition tableOlaf Hering
The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117 The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it, then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC. The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4 bytes. The whole partition info for primary partitions is in this block: dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be )) All other data do not matter, beside the 0x55aa marker at the end of the first block. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-10[PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Some partitioning systems create special partitions that span the entire disk. One example are Sun partitions, and this whole-disk partition exists to tell the firmware the extent of the entire device so it can load the boot block and do other things. Such partitions should not be treated as normal partitions, because all the other partitions overlap this whole-disk one. So we'd see multiple instances of the same UUID etc. which we do not want. udev and friends can thus search for this 'whole_disk' attribute and use it to decide to ignore the partition. Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-09[MIPS] Rename SNI_RM200_PCI to just SNI_RM preparing for more RM machinesThomas Bogendoerfer
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection capability for disk IOAkinobu Mita
This patch provides fault-injection capability for disk IO. Boot option: fail_make_request=<probability>,<interval>,<space>,<times> <interval> -- specifies the interval of failures. <probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent. <space> -- specifies the size of free space where disk IO can be issued safely in bytes. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/fail_make_request/interval /debug/fail_make_request/probability /debug/fail_make_request/specifies /debug/fail_make_request/times Example: fail_make_request=10,100,0,-1 echo 1 > /sys/blocks/hda/hda1/make-it-fail generic_make_request() on /dev/hda1 fails once per 10 times. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Fix check_partition routinesSuzuki K P
check_partition() stops its probe once it hits an I/O error from the partition checkers. This would prevent the actual partition checker getting a chance to verify the partition. So this patch lets check_partition() continue probing untill it hits a success while recording the I/O error which might have been reported by the checking routines. Also, it does some cleanup of the partition methods for ibm, atari and amiga to return -1 upon hitting an I/O error. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] fix rescan_partitions to return errors properlySuzuki Kp
The current rescan_partition implementation ignores the errors that comes from the lower layer. It reports success for unknown partitions as well as I/O error cases while reading the partition information. The unknown partition is not (and will not be) considered as an error in the kernel, since there are legal users of it (e.g, members of a RAID5 MD Device or a new disk which is not partitioned at all ). Changing this behaviour would scare the user about a serious problem with their disk and is not recommended. Thus for both "unknown partitions" to the Linux (eg., DEC VMS,Novell Netware) and the legal users of NULL partition, would still be reported as "SUCCESS". The patch attached here, scares the user about something which he does need to worry about. i.e, returning -EIO on disk I/O errors while reading the partition information. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-04[PATCH] Enable RAID autorun on Mac partition tables.David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17[PATCH] fs/partitions/check: add sysfs error handlingJeff Garzik
Handle errors thrown in disk_sysfs_symlinks(), and propagate back to caller. The callers and associated functions don't do a real good job of handling kobject errors anyway (add_partition, register_disk, rescan_partitions), so this should do until something better comes along. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-10[PATCH] fs/partitions endianness annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01[PATCH] fs/partitions: Conversion to generic booleanRichard Knutsson
Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23) Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-30[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]David Howells
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require the block layer to be present. This patch does the following: (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev support. (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls an item that uses the block layer. This includes: (*) Block I/O tracing. (*) Disk partition code. (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS. (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities - such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this. (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM drivers. (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL. (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book. (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is, however, still used in places, and so is still available. (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and parts of linux/fs.h. (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled. (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set: (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening). (*) Makes some /proc changes: (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs. (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified. (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2. (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so). (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-29[PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX labelOlaf Hering
The on-disk data structures from AIX are not known, also the filesystem layout is not known. There is a msdos partition signature at the end of the first block, and the kernel recognizes 3 small (and overlapping) partitions. But they are not usable. Maybe the firmware uses it to find the bootloader for AIX, but AIX boots also if the first block is cleared. This is the content of the partition table: # dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be )) | xxd 0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0000010: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8... 0000020: 00ff ffff 41ff ffff 0211 0000 1900 0000 ....A........... 0000030: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8... Handle the whole disk as empty disk. This fixes also YaST which compares the output from parted (and formerly fdisk) with /proc/partitions. fdisk recognizes the AIX label since a long time, SuSE has a patch for parted to handle the disk label as unknown. dmesg will look like this: sda: [AIX] unknown partition table Tested on an IBM B50 with AIX V4.3.3. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] fs: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)allocPanagiotis Issaris
Conversions from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc. Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Jffs2-bit-acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-26[DISKLABEL] SUN: Fix signed int usage for sector countJeff Mahoney
The current sun disklabel code uses a signed int for the sector count. When partitions larger than 1 TB are used, the cast to a sector_t causes the partition sizes to be invalid: # cat /proc/paritions | grep sdan 66 112 2146435072 sdan 66 115 9223372036853660736 sdan3 66 120 9223372036853660736 sdan8 This patch switches the sector count to an unsigned int to fix this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-31[PATCH] enable mac partition label per default on pmacOlaf Hering
Enable mac partition table support per default also for a powermac config. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10[PATCH] partitions: let partitions inherit policy from diskPeter Oberparleiter
Change the partition code in fs/partitions/check.c to initialize a newly detected partition's policy field with that of the containing block device (see patch below). My reasoning is that function set_disk_ro() in block/genhd.c modifies the policy field (read-only indicator) of a disk and all contained partitions. When a partition is detected after the call to set_disk_ro(), the policy field of this partition will currently not inherit the disk's policy field. This behavior poses a problem in cases where a block device can be 'logically de- and reactivated' like e.g. the s390 DASD driver because partition detection may run after the policy field has been modified. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Makes-sense-to: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Removes the devfs_mk_bdev() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition codeGreg Kroah-Hartman
This patch removes the devfs code from the fs/partitions/ directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] make kernel warn about incorrectly sized partitionsMike Miller
Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a disk device. This patch makes the kernel warn about those partitions. We still permit these patitions to be used. Quoting Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>: Case 1: The kernel is mistaken about the size of the disk. (There are commands to clip a disk to a certain capacity, there are jumpers to tell a disk that it should report a certain capacity etc. Usually this is because of BIOS bugs. In bad cases the machine will crash in the BIOS and hence fail to boot if the disk reports full capacity.) In such cases actually accessing the blocks of the partition may work fine, or may work fine after running an unclip utility. I wrote "setmax" some years ago precisely for this reason. Case 2: There was a messy partition table (maybe just a rounding error) but the actual filesystem on the partition is contained in the physical disk. Now using the filesystem goes without problem. Case 3: Both partition and filesystem extend beyond the end of the disk. In forensic or debugging situations one often uses a copy of the start of a disk. Now access beyond the end gives an expected I/O error. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] read_mapping_page for address spacePekka Enberg
Add read_mapping_page() which is used for callers that pass mapping->a_ops->readpage as the filler for read_cache_page. This removes some duplication from filesystem code. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-21[PATCH] Driver core: add generic "subsystem" link to all devicesKay Sievers
Like the SUBSYTEM= key we find in the environment of the uevent, this creates a generic "subsystem" link in sysfs for every device. Userspace usually doesn't care at all if its a "class" or a "bus" device. This provides an unified way to determine the subsytem of a device, regardless of the way the driver core has created it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-05-12Alternative fix for MMC oops on unmount after removalLinus Torvalds
Make sure to clear the driverfs_dev pointer when we do del_gendisk() (on disk removal), so that other users that may still have a ref to the disk won't try to use the stale pointer. Also move the KOBJ_REMOVE uevent handler up, so that the uevent still has access to the driverfs_dev data. This all should hopefully fix the problems with MMC umounts after device removals that caused commit 56cf6504fc1c0c221b82cebc16a444b684140fb7 and its reversal (1a2acc9e9214699a99389e323e6686e9e0e2ca67). Original problem reported by Todd Blumer and others. Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Cc: Todd Blumer <todd@sdgsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-17[PATCH] Fix block device symlink nameStephen Rothwell
As noted further on the this file, some block devices have a / in their name, so fix the "block:..." symlink name the same as the /sys/block name. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] BLOCK: delay all uevents until partition table is scannedKay Sievers
[BLOCK] delay all uevents until partition table is scanned Here we delay the annoucement of all block device events until the disk's partition table is scanned and all partition devices are already created and sysfs is populated. We have a bunch of old bugs for removable storage handling where we probe successfully for a filesystem on the raw disk, but at the same time the kernel recognizes a partition table and creates partition devices. Currently there is no sane way to tell if partitions will show up or not at the time the disk device is announced to userspace. With the delayed events we can simply skip any probe for a filesystem on the raw disk when we find already present partitions. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-29Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras
2006-03-28[PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbersBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this, board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine. We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of _machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at _machine. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] dm-md-dependency-tree-in-sysfs-holders-slaves-subdirectory-tidyAndrew Morton
Remove all the CONFIG_SYSFS stuff. That's supposed to all be implemented up in header files. Yes, the CONFIG_SYSFS=n data structures will be a little larger than necessary, but that's a tradeoff we can decide to make. Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] dm/md dependency tree in sysfs: holders/slaves subdirectoryJun'ichi Nomura
Creating "slaves" and "holders" directories in /sys/block/<disk> and creating "holders" directory under /sys/block/<disk>/<partition> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26[PATCH] sem2mutex: fs/Ingo Molnar
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] s390: Remove old history/whitespave from partition codeHorst Hummel
Remove obsolete history and trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] s390: dasd partition detectionHorst Hummel
DASD allows to open a device as soon as gendisk is registered, which means the device is a fake device (capacity=0) and we do know nothing about blocksize and partitions at that point of time. In case the device is opened by someone, the bdev and inode creation is done with the fake device info and the following partition detection code is just using the wrong data. To avoid this modify the DASD state machine to make sure that the open is rejected until the device analysis is either finished or an unformatted device was detected. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16[PATCH] partitions: Read Rio Karma partition tableBob Copeland
The Rio Karma portable MP3 player has its own proprietary partition table. The partition layout is similar to a DOS boot sector but it begins at a different offset and uses a different magic number (0xAB56 instead of 0xAA55). Add support for it to enable mounting the device. Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>