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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-10-21 13:25:32 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-10-21 13:25:32 +1100
commit92850bbd71228730c80efd491e7427650188d359 (patch)
tree1d9d87d8eead78e2f6d37db62b580a8b7961844e
parent3c0ee63a64a20351ed6c16ec797e1f8c850741ea (diff)
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md: allow extended partitions on md devices.
The new extended partition support provides a much nicer was to have partitions on md devices that the 'mdp' alternate major. We cannot really get rid of 'mdp' at this time, but we can enable extended partitions as that will probably make life easier for sysadmins. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 8b30347..d255997 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3463,6 +3463,11 @@ static struct kobject *md_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data)
disk->fops = &md_fops;
disk->private_data = mddev;
disk->queue = mddev->queue;
+ /* Allow extended partitions. This makes the
+ * 'mdp' device redundant, but we can really
+ * remove it now.
+ */
+ disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT;
add_disk(disk);
mddev->gendisk = disk;
error = kobject_init_and_add(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype,
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