From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752925Ab0EPHOz (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2010 03:14:55 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53504 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752121Ab0EPHOy (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2010 03:14:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100516.001502.35836083.davem@davemloft.net> To: tj@kernel.org Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk, bzolnier@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] block: restart partition scan after resizing a device From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1273946974-29131-3-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> References: <1273946974-29131-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1273946974-29131-3-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tejun Heo Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:09:28 +0200 > Device resize via ->set_capacity() can reveal new partitions (e.g. in > chained partition table formats such as dos extended parts). Restart > partition scan from the beginning after resizing a device. This > change also makes libata always revalidate the disk after resize which > makes lower layer native capacity unlocking implementation simpler and > more robust as resize can be handled in the usual path. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo > Reported-by: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: David S. Miller