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| author |   Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> | 2006-07-10 04:44:00 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-10 13:24:14 -0700 |
| commit | 25e206b54b9a20e63b6f5194aeebfa13d37e015c (patch) | |
| tree | 3b93a095eb1237e8d74f52553b69b666e6044f7d /mm/fadvise.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] Add Specialix IO8+ card support hotplug support (diff) | |
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[PATCH] partitions: let partitions inherit policy from disk
Change the partition code in fs/partitions/check.c to initialize a newly
detected partition's policy field with that of the containing block device
(see patch below).
My reasoning is that function set_disk_ro() in block/genhd.c modifies the
policy field (read-only indicator) of a disk and all contained partitions.
When a partition is detected after the call to set_disk_ro(), the policy
field of this partition will currently not inherit the disk's policy field.
This behavior poses a problem in cases where a block device can be
'logically de- and reactivated' like e.g. the s390 DASD driver because
partition detection may run after the policy field has been modified.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Makes-sense-to: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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