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authorFabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>2007-02-10 23:50:00 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-02-10 23:50:00 -0800
commitd18d7682c18b617f523df6beea5ea0bd396ed0bd (patch)
tree8e005fee2e13134e9ebdd1a3b71ef72b84351b19 /include/linux
parent66efc5a7e3061c3597ac43a8bb1026488d57e66b (diff)
[PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.
Some partitioning systems create special partitions that span the entire disk. One example are Sun partitions, and this whole-disk partition exists to tell the firmware the extent of the entire device so it can load the boot block and do other things. Such partitions should not be treated as normal partitions, because all the other partitions overlap this whole-disk one. So we'd see multiple instances of the same UUID etc. which we do not want. udev and friends can thus search for this 'whole_disk' attribute and use it to decide to ignore the partition. Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/genhd.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
index 0a022b2f63f..247734f7881 100644
--- a/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ enum {
LINUX_EXTENDED_PARTITION = 0x85,
WIN98_EXTENDED_PARTITION = 0x0f,
+ SUN_WHOLE_DISK = DOS_EXTENDED_PARTITION,
+
LINUX_SWAP_PARTITION = 0x82,
LINUX_RAID_PARTITION = 0xfd, /* autodetect RAID partition */
@@ -400,10 +402,14 @@ struct unixware_disklabel {
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#define ADDPART_FLAG_NONE 0
+#define ADDPART_FLAG_RAID 1
+#define ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK 2
+
char *disk_name (struct gendisk *hd, int part, char *buf);
extern int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev);
-extern void add_partition(struct gendisk *, int, sector_t, sector_t);
+extern void add_partition(struct gendisk *, int, sector_t, sector_t, int);
extern void delete_partition(struct gendisk *, int);
extern struct gendisk *alloc_disk_node(int minors, int node_id);