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Diffstat (limited to 'block/genhd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/genhd.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 397960cf26a..a9ec910974c 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -256,6 +256,22 @@ void blkdev_show(struct seq_file *seqf, off_t offset) } #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ +/** + * register_blkdev - register a new block device + * + * @major: the requested major device number [1..255]. If @major=0, try to + * allocate any unused major number. + * @name: the name of the new block device as a zero terminated string + * + * The @name must be unique within the system. + * + * The return value depends on the @major input parameter. + * - if a major device number was requested in range [1..255] then the + * function returns zero on success, or a negative error code + * - if any unused major number was requested with @major=0 parameter + * then the return value is the allocated major number in range + * [1..255] or a negative error code otherwise + */ int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name) { struct blk_major_name **n, *p; @@ -1087,6 +1103,14 @@ dev_t blk_lookup_devt(const char *name, int partno) if (strcmp(dev_name(dev), name)) continue; + if (partno < disk->minors) { + /* We need to return the right devno, even + * if the partition doesn't exist yet. + */ + devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(dev->devt), + MINOR(dev->devt) + partno); + break; + } part = disk_get_part(disk, partno); if (part) { devt = part_devt(part); |