Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756904AbYJMJQk (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:16:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755348AbYJMJQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:16:32 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:39930 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754034AbYJMJQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:16:31 -0400 Message-ID: <48F3113F.7090905@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:13:35 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080720) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang References: <20081010203043.GA11798@elte.hu> <20081010204015.GA15668@elte.hu> <20081010205642.GA28840@elte.hu> <48EFF84B.5060108@kernel.org> <48F00476.6030108@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <48F00476.6030108@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 32 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/