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>
diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
index e439e6a..3df7742 100644
--- a/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -522,7 +522,9 @@
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);