The patch titled
brd: don't show ramdisks in /proc/partitions
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
brd-dont-show-ramdisks-in-proc-partitions.patch
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Subject: brd: don't show ramdisks in /proc/partitions
From: Marcin Krol <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In 2.6.25, ramdisk devices show up in /proc/partitions, which is a
behaviour change from the old rd.c. Add GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO,
which was present in rd.c.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Krol <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/brd.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/block/brd.c~brd-dont-show-ramdisks-in-proc-partitions drivers/block/brd.c
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c~brd-dont-show-ramdisks-in-proc-partitions
+++ a/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ static struct brd_device *brd_alloc(int
disk->fops = &brd_fops;
disk->private_data = brd;
disk->queue = brd->brd_queue;
+ disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO;
sprintf(disk->disk_name, "ram%d", i);
set_capacity(disk, rd_size * 2);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
brd-dont-show-ramdisks-in-proc-partitions.patch
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