block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN
There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).
This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions. disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland. show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.
-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index ff77262..0bed0d4 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@
if (!bdev->bd_disk)
return;
- if (disk_partitionable(bdev->bd_disk))
+ if (disk_part_scan_enabled(bdev->bd_disk))
bdev->bd_invalidated = 1;
}