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[PATCH] BLOCK: delay all uevents until partition table is scanned

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[BLOCK] delay all uevents until partition table is scanned

Here we delay the annoucement of all block device events until the
disk's partition table is scanned and all partition devices are already
created and sysfs is populated.

We have a bunch of old bugs for removable storage handling where we
probe successfully for a filesystem on the raw disk, but at the
same time the kernel recognizes a partition table and creates partition
devices.
Currently there is no sane way to tell if partitions will show up or not
at the time the disk device is announced to userspace. With the delayed
events we can simply skip any probe for a filesystem on the raw disk when
we find already present partitions.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers
2006-03-24 20:45:35 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 0f836ca4c1
commit d4d7e5dffc
2 changed files with 31 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct gendisk {
* disks that can't be partitioned. */
char disk_name[32]; /* name of major driver */
struct hd_struct **part; /* [indexed by minor] */
int part_uevent_suppress;
struct block_device_operations *fops;
struct request_queue *queue;
void *private_data;