Re: [PATCH 2/8] block: restart partition scan after resizing adevice

[David Miller]

From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:09:28 +0200

> Device resize via ->set_capacity() can reveal new partitions (e.g. in
> chained partition table formats such as dos extended parts).  Restart
> partition scan from the beginning after resizing a device.  This
> change also makes libata always revalidate the disk after resize which
> makes lower layer native capacity unlocking implementation simpler and
> more robust as resize can be handled in the usual path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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