On Fri, 27 May 2022 07:58:06 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Historically we did distinguish between a flag that surpressed partition
> scanning, and a combinations of the minors variable and another flag if
> any partitions were supported. This was generally confusing and doesn't
> make much sense, but some corner case uses of the loop driver actually
> do want to support manually added partitions on a device that does not
> actively scan for partitions. To make things worsee the loop driver
> also wants to dynamically toggle the scanning for partitions on a live
> gendisk, which makes the disk->flags updates non-atomic.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] block, loop: support partitions without scanning
commit: b9684a71fca793213378dd410cd11675d973eaa1
Best regards,
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Jens Axboe
