Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:27:51 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: add partition attribute for partition number |
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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
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