On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:56 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Jens, James, Jeff, > > This patchset implements ->set_capacity() in libata so that HPA can be > unlocked on demand. Thanks Tejun. > 0001-block-restart-partition-scan-after-resizing-a-device.patch > 0002-SCSI-implement-sd_set_capacity.patch > 0003-libata-use-the-enlarged-capacity-after-late-HPA-unlo.patch > 0004-libata-implement-on-demand-HPA-unlocking.patch > > 0001 makes partition scan code to restart after ->set_capacity(). > This makes sure that partitions which start beyond the HPA limit are > discovered. > > 0002 implements ->set_capacity() in sd. > > 0003 makes libata accept device capacity larger than the initial one. > > 0004 implements ->set_capacity() in libata which asks libata EH to > unlock HPA, waits and returns the new capacity. > > Ben Hutchings suggeseted implementing ->set_capacity() in libata and > also reported the bug in the current partition scan code where it > fails to discover partitions which start beyond the HPA limit. [...] And I've already successfully tested the combination of patches 2-4. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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