linux.git/fs/partitions, branch v2.6.23

[PARTITION]: Sun/Solaris VTOC table corrections

2007-07-30T07:27:31+00:00

Start doing VTOC validation before using its contents.
The validation is adjusted so as not to break existing setups
that do not set the VTOC version, sanity and partition count entries.
VTOC tables with more than 8 partitions will NOT be used.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PARTITION] MSDOS: Fix Sun num_partitions handling.

2007-07-30T07:27:28+00:00

Correct the Solaris x86 number of partitions (slices) is a way that is
backward compatible with the earlier size.

This works without a new VTOC structure definition as the timestamp
and v_asciilabel fields in the VTOC are not used by the kernel yet.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)

2007-07-19T17:04:50+00:00

Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Bryan Wu 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Acked-by: Roland Dreier 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Acked-by: Greg KH 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix LDM for new field in the VOL5 VBLK.

2007-07-16T19:01:30+00:00

Teach LDM about a new field encountered with Windows Vista.

This fixes LDM for people using Vista who have disabled drive letter
assignment from one or more volumes.  Doing this introduces a so far
unknown field in the LDM database in the VOL5 VBLK structure which
causes the LDM driver to fail to parse the VBLK structure and hence LDM
fails to parse the disk altogether.  This patch teaches the driver about
this field.

Thanks got to Ashton Mills  for reporting the
problem and working with me on getting it fixed.  It is now working for
him.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov 
CC: Richard Russon 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fix compiler warnings in acorn.c

2007-07-16T16:05:42+00:00

warning: 'adfs_partition' defined but not used
warning: 'riscix_partition' defined but not used
warning: 'linux_partition' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Denver Gingerich 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner

2007-07-11T23:09:06+00:00

sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Cornelia Huck 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[S390] fixed cdl-format detection.

2007-07-10T09:24:44+00:00

CDL formated DASDs are now detected correctly even if no VOL1 label is
on the disk. This prevents possible loss of data.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

partitions/LDM: build fix

2007-05-22T04:38:17+00:00

This from a "tested" patch...

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disks

2007-05-21T16:58:40+00:00

This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic
disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones.

The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be
recognized and parsed successfully.

Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing.

Cc: Richard Russon 
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

small cleanup in gpt partition handling

2007-05-11T15:29:34+00:00

Remove unused argument in is_pmbr_valid()
Remove unneeded initialization of local variable legacy_mbr

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds