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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2008-11-10 15:29:58 +0900 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-11-18 15:08:56 +0100 |
| commit | ba32929a91fe2c0628f5be62d1597b379c8d3062 (patch) | |
| tree | 09ea54ed2d2299d25b92fee6a6dde4d7527a3d37 /include/linux | |
| parent | eb60fa1066622ddb2278732cf61e0c4544e82c6f (diff) | |
block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure. This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/genhd.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h index e439e6aed832..3df7742ce246 100644 --- a/include/linux/genhd.h +++ b/include/linux/genhd.h @@ -522,7 +522,9 @@ extern char *disk_name (struct gendisk *hd, int partno, char *buf); extern int disk_expand_part_tbl(struct gendisk *disk, int target); extern int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev); -extern int __must_check add_partition(struct gendisk *, int, sector_t, sector_t, int); +extern struct hd_struct * __must_check add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, + int partno, sector_t start, + sector_t len, int flags); extern void delete_partition(struct gendisk *, int); extern void printk_all_partitions(void); |