On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 05:43:40PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
> Not checked till now. I just was thinking about the basicapproach.
>
> I could either check the block_device_operations like you suggested
> or I could verify that the gendisk pointer is already in our devmap
> and therefor
Am 07.05.20 um 17:29 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 05:22:28PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
>> OK, just thought again about your suggestion and also that
>> you have already been talking about a symbol lookup I just
>> have written a prototype that took your first two
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 05:22:28PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
> OK, just thought again about your suggestion and also that
> you have already been talking about a symbol lookup I just
> have written a prototype that took your first two patches
> as base, exports the symbol of dasd_biodasdinfo
Am 06.05.20 um 06:52 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
>
> No, I mean the series that I actually sent out:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/21/66
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/21/68
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/21/69
OK, just thought again about your suggestion and also that
you have already been
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 05:09:56PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
> OK, thanks for the hint.I did not have this in mind. And I still have
> to look up how this is working at all.
> But isn't this only a real issue for devices with more than 16 minors
> or partitions? So it should not be a problem
Am 05.05.20 um 14:44 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:45:33AM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
>>> findthe corresponding device for example. Not sure if this is that easy.
>> I did some additional research on this.
>> What I could imagine:
>>
>> The gendisk->private_data
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:45:33AM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
> > findthe corresponding device for example. Not sure if this is that easy.
>
> I did some additional research on this.
> What I could imagine:
>
> The gendisk->private_data pointer currently contains a pointer to
> the
Am 30.04.20 um 16:02 schrieb Stefan Haberland:
> Am 30.04.20 um 15:13 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 01:17:54PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
>>> Remove the calls to ioctl_by_bdev from the DASD partition detection code
>>> to enable the removal of the specific code.
>>>
>>>
Am 30.04.20 um 15:13 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 01:17:54PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
>> Remove the calls to ioctl_by_bdev from the DASD partition detection code
>> to enable the removal of the specific code.
>>
>> To do so reuse the gendisk private_data pointer and
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 01:17:54PM +0200, Stefan Haberland wrote:
> Remove the calls to ioctl_by_bdev from the DASD partition detection code
> to enable the removal of the specific code.
>
> To do so reuse the gendisk private_data pointer and not only provide a
> pointer to the devmap but provide
Remove the calls to ioctl_by_bdev from the DASD partition detection code
to enable the removal of the specific code.
To do so reuse the gendisk private_data pointer and not only provide a
pointer to the devmap but provide a new structure containing a pointer
to the devmap as well as all required
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