On 1/26/20 6:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Host-aware SMR drives can be used with the commands to explicitly manage > zone state, but they can also be used as normal disks. In the former > case it makes perfect sense to allow partitions on them, in the latter > it does not, just like for host managed devices. Add a check to > add_partition to allow partitions on host aware devices, but give > up any zone management capabilities in that case, which also catches > the previously missed case of adding a partition vs just scanning it. > > Because sd can rescan the attribute at runtime it needs to check if > a disk has partitions, for which a new helper is added to genhd.h. Applied, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
