On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:27:51PM +0900, Kokachev Oleksiy wrote: > I'm trying to make some modifications to SCSI driver to correctly sync > /proc/partitions when new disk is inserted. > To revalidate disk I used sd_revalidate_disk(), but this function revalidate > only disk info, but do not rescan partition table. How can I tell the driver > to correctly rescan part/ table? I've tried to use rescan_partitions() > function like below, but failed: > struct scsi_disk *sdkp; > bdev = bdget_disk(sdkp->disk, 0); > rescan_partitions(sdkp->disk, bdev); > But in this case bdev->bd_disk is NULL. Why? What did I do not correct? Can be done from userland: blockdev --rereadpt /dev/whatever . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
