Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang

[Tejun Heo]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>
>> Yeap, if fedora didn't work, I think it should be hidden.  Do we already
>> have place to hide things like this?
>>
> 
> By the way, I don't see anything in this patchset that lets userspace
> discover the parent device.  Since the old rule of
> 
>     partition device = parent device + partition number
> 
> ... no longer holds, this is a serious omission for something that is in
> mainstream (and therefore *requires* that a new interface is deployed
> for anything that cares.)
> 
> This will have to be addressed before 2.6.28 final.

The sysfs directory for the parent can be reached by "cd -P
/sys/class/block/PART/..".  That should be enough, right?  I'll add
the partition attribute but I don't really think we need to do
anything to improve parent discovery.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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