block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN
There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).
This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions. disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland. show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.
-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 5cb51c5..2429ecb 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@
disk->slave_dir = kobject_create_and_add("slaves", &ddev->kobj);
/* No minors to use for partitions */
- if (!disk_partitionable(disk))
+ if (!disk_part_scan_enabled(disk))
goto exit;
/* No such device (e.g., media were just removed) */
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@
char buf[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
/* Don't show non-partitionable removeable devices or empty devices */
- if (!get_capacity(sgp) || (!disk_partitionable(sgp) &&
+ if (!get_capacity(sgp) || (!disk_max_parts(sgp) &&
(sgp->flags & GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE)))
return 0;
if (sgp->flags & GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO)
