Enable partitions for lguest block device
The lguest block device only requests one minor, which means
partitions don't work (eg "root=/dev/lgba1").
Let's follow the crowd and ask for 16.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/block/lguest_blk.c b/drivers/block/lguest_blk.c
index 93e3c40..160cf14 100644
--- a/drivers/block/lguest_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/lguest_blk.c
@@ -308,9 +308,12 @@
}
/* This allocates a "struct gendisk" where we pack all the information
- * about the disk which the rest of Linux sees. We ask for one minor
- * number; I do wonder if we should be asking for more. */
- bd->disk = alloc_disk(1);
+ * about the disk which the rest of Linux sees. The argument is the
+ * number of minor devices desired: we need one minor for the main
+ * disk, and one for each partition. Of course, we can't possibly know
+ * how many partitions are on the disk (add_disk does that).
+ */
+ bd->disk = alloc_disk(16);
if (!bd->disk) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_unregister_blkdev;