* [PATCH-2.5] Fix devfs' partition handling
@ 2003-03-28 11:48 Andre Landwehr
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From: Andre Landwehr @ 2003-03-28 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel
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Hi,
with / on an IDE harddisk the disks partitions do not appear in
devfs, only the disc device. This is due to rescan_partitions
being called twice and deleting but not re-creating the entries
during the second call. Here's the patch:
diff -Nur linux-2.5-unmodified/fs/partitions/check.c linux-2.5/fs/partitions/check.c
--- linux-2.5-unmodified/fs/partitions/check.c Thu Mar 27 13:44:20 2003
+++ linux-2.5/fs/partitions/check.c Fri Mar 28 11:48:21 2003
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@
p->nr_sects = 0;
p->reads = p->writes = p->read_sectors = p->write_sectors = 0;
devfs_unregister(p->de);
+ p->de = NULL;
kobject_unregister(&p->kobj);
}
Have fun
Andre
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