Hi Christoph,
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 7:57 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I think we need the patch below to restore the old behavior where a
> partitions scan happens only for those sub-drivers that do report a
> partition shift.
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> MTD maintainers: is this intentional that raw mtdblock does not support
> partitions, but the various "FTL" modules do?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
> index 113f86df76038..57a22d2ebaeca 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
> @@ -345,6 +345,8 @@ int add_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *new)
> gd->first_minor = (new->devnum) << tr->part_bits;
> gd->minors = 1 << tr->part_bits;
> gd->fops = &mtd_block_ops;
> + if (!tr->part_bits)
> + gd->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART;
Move this into the "else" branch of the test below?
> if (tr->part_bits)
> if (new->devnum < 26)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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