[PATCH] Re: Missing IDE partition 3 of 3 on 2.5.34?

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 08:42:03 EST


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:

> I see the same thing. Both of my IDE drives comes up without
> the last partition. (Missing ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
> and ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part7, loosing /usr and /usr/src
> in my case.)
>
> There's lots of updates in code that deals with partitions
> and devfs, I couldn't find anything obvious wrong though.

devfs side. Fix:

--- C34/fs/partitions/check.c Mon Sep 9 20:39:52 2002
+++ /tmp/check.c Tue Sep 10 09:39:47 2002
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
         devfs_auto_unregister(dev->disk_de, slave);
         if (!(dev->flags & GENHD_FL_DEVFS))
                 devfs_auto_unregister (slave, dir);
- for (part = 1, p++; part < max_p; part++, p++)
+ for (part = 1; part < max_p; part++, p++)
                 if (p->nr_sects)
                         devfs_register_partition(dev, part);
 #endif

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