* [patch] trivial doc patch for partitions
@ 2004-07-27 19:29 Martin Pool
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From: Martin Pool @ 2004-07-27 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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It's slightly hard to see how these variables are used; this patch
adds a short description.
I am planning to change rescan_partitions so that it allows you to
change partitions on a disk that has active partitions, so long as the
active partitions themselves are not changed. Would anyone object?
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2004-06-18 15:16:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h 2004-07-27 11:50:01.483618248 -0700
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@
struct block_device * bd_contains;
unsigned bd_block_size;
struct hd_struct * bd_part;
+ /* number of times partitions within this device have been opened. */
unsigned bd_part_count;
int bd_invalidated;
struct gendisk * bd_disk;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/genhd.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/genhd.h 2004-03-14 19:24:17.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/genhd.h 2004-07-25 09:58:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@
struct gendisk {
int major; /* major number of driver */
int first_minor;
- int minors;
+ int minors; /* maximum number of minors, =1 for
+ * disks that can't be partitioned. */
char disk_name[32]; /* name of major driver */
struct hd_struct **part; /* [indexed by minor] */
struct block_device_operations *fops;
--
Martin
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