From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: [RFC] block: Remove annoying "unknown partition table" message Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:32:53 +0200 Message-ID: <54BBD225.3080200@plexistor.com> References: <54AD5893.9040701@plexistor.com> <54AD59DC.4020703@plexistor.com> <54B99591.7080007@fb.com> <54BBB048.7010207@plexistor.com> <20150118151059.GA17263@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jens Axboe , Tony Luck , Matthew Wilcox , Dmitry Monakhov , linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel , "Martin K. Petersen" To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150118151059.GA17263@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org From: Boaz Harrosh As Christoph put it best: Can we just get rid of the warnings? It's fairly annoying as devices without partitions are perfectly fine and very useful. Me too I see this message every VM boot for ages on all my devices. Would love to just remove it. For me a partition-table is only needed for a booting BIOS, grub, and stuff. (NOT Yet Tested) CC: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh --- block/partitions/check.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/partitions/check.c b/block/partitions/check.c index 9ac1df7..e3a9077 100644 --- a/block/partitions/check.c +++ b/block/partitions/check.c @@ -184,9 +184,7 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct block_device *bdev) if (err) /* The partition is unrecognized. So report I/O errors if there were any */ res = err; - if (!res) - strlcat(state->pp_buf, " unknown partition table\n", PAGE_SIZE); - else if (warn_no_part) + if (warn_no_part) strlcat(state->pp_buf, " unable to read partition table\n", PAGE_SIZE); printk(KERN_INFO "%s", state->pp_buf);