From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jie Wang <wangjie2011cs@163.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: check disk flag before setting scan bit
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:14:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8ZY6+goxBrkHT8c@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230117075329.14968-1-wangjie2011cs@163.com>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 03:53:29PM +0800, Jie Wang wrote:
> No need to scan partitions for disk who has set flag GENHD_FL_NO_PART in
> driver code. In disk_scan_partitions function, the same checking is
> existing, so we believe this change is reasonable.
>
> In our case, some virtual block devices are not managed by GPT, then scan
> partition operation is not a must. So we set GENHD_FL_NO_PART flag in
> driver intended to avoid partitions being dropped/added.
What driver?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-17 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-17 7:53 [PATCH] block: check disk flag before setting scan bit Jie Wang
2023-01-17 8:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <1a61ffce.191e.185bef2aea0.Coremail.wangjie2011cs@163.com>
2023-01-17 8:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] <20230116083832.27305-1-wangjie22@lixiang.com>
2023-01-16 16:14 ` Jens Axboe
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