Hello, On 05/13/2010 06:38 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > Instead of making this a block sysfs attribute, since HPA is SATA only, > why not make it a libata attribute for the disk? > > That way on unlock, you can unlock the HPA and then trigger a partition > rescan of the block device (BLKRRPART) ... this is an ioctl, so you need > user context, but you have it if you do it from the sysfs write routine. > This looks to be a lot simpler than threading it up through SCSI and > block. This doesn't have anything to do with sysfs. It's called from block partition scan code when it detects a partition extends beyond the end of the device. No user intervention at all and the mechanism has been there for quite some years and possibly predates sysfs. Am I being really slow or are you looking at something else? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
