On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 09:39:20AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > For whole devices ->open is called for each open, but for partitions it > is only called on the first open of a partition. This is problematic > as various block drivers look at open flags and might not do all setup > for ioctl only or NDELAY opens. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > --- This assumes that all drivers deal with additional ->open() calls for each partition correctly which I assumed you checked so, Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>