From d18d7682c18b617f523df6beea5ea0bd396ed0bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:50:00 -0800 Subject: [PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute. 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- fs/partitions/check.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/partitions/check.c') diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c index 3d73d94d93a..ac32a2e8540 100644 --- a/fs/partitions/check.c +++ b/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part) kobject_put(&p->kobj); } -void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len) +void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags) { struct hd_struct *p; @@ -390,6 +390,15 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len) if (!disk->part_uevent_suppress) kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kset.kobj, "subsystem"); + if (flags & ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK) { + static struct attribute addpartattr = { + .name = "whole_disk", + .mode = S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + }; + + sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr); + } partition_sysfs_add_subdir(p); disk->part[part-1] = p; } @@ -543,9 +552,9 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev) printk(" %s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n", disk->disk_name, p); } - add_partition(disk, p, from, size); + add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags); #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD - if (state->parts[p].flags) + if (state->parts[p].flags & ADDPART_FLAG_RAID) md_autodetect_dev(bdev->bd_dev+p); #endif } -- cgit v1.2.3