From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add partition attribute for partition number
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:27:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013112751.GI19428@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F32BF6.8010109@kernel.org>
On Mon, Oct 13 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> With extended devt, finding out the partition number becomes a bit
> more challenging as subtracting the minor number from that of the
> parent device doesn't work anymore. The only thing left is parsing
> the partition name which is brittle and not exactly universal (some
> have '-' between the device name and partition number while others
> don't). This patch introduced partition attribute which contains the
> partition number of the device. This should make finding partitions
> and its index easier.
>
> This problem and solution were suggested by H. Peter Anvin.
Applied to for-linus
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 20:30 [bug] latest -git boot hang Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 20:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 20:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-11 0:50 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-11 1:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-13 9:13 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-13 11:07 ` [PATCH] block: add partition attribute for partition number Tejun Heo
2008-10-13 11:27 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-10-11 7:11 ` [bug] latest -git boot hang Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-11 14:08 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 14:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-11 14:39 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 14:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-11 17:58 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-13 6:41 ` [PATCH] block: add BIG FAT WARNING to CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT Tejun Heo
2008-10-13 8:46 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-14 15:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-14 17:31 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-14 15:07 ` [bug] latest -git boot hang Stephen Smalley
2008-10-14 15:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-14 15:24 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-10-15 1:48 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-10-13 8:41 ` Takashi Iwai
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