On 01/18/2015 08:48 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 01/18/2015 05:32 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> From: Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com>
>>
>> As Christoph put it best:
>> Can we just get rid of the warnings? It's fairly annoying as devices
>> without partitions are perfectly fine and very useful.
>>
>> Me too I see this message every VM boot for ages on all my
>> devices. Would love to just remove it. For me a partition-table
>> is only needed for a booting BIOS, grub, and stuff.
>>
>> (NOT Yet Tested)
>>
>> CC: Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com>
>> ---
>> block/partitions/check.c | 4 +---
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/partitions/check.c b/block/partitions/check.c
>> index 9ac1df7..e3a9077 100644
>> --- a/block/partitions/check.c
>> +++ b/block/partitions/check.c
>> @@ -184,9 +184,7 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct block_device
>> *bdev)
>> if (err)
>> /* The partition is unrecognized. So report I/O errors if there were
>> any */
>> res = err;
>> - if (!res)
>> - strlcat(state->pp_buf, " unknown partition table\n", PAGE_SIZE);
>> - else if (warn_no_part)
>> + if (warn_no_part)
>> strlcat(state->pp_buf, " unable to read partition table\n",
>> PAGE_SIZE);
>>
>> printk(KERN_INFO "%s", state->pp_buf);
>>
>
> Off course that was untested crap something like:
> ---
> diff --git a/block/partitions/check.c b/block/partitions/check.c
> index 9ac1df7..16118d1 100644
> --- a/block/partitions/check.c
> +++ b/block/partitions/check.c
> @@ -184,12 +184,12 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct block_device
> *bdev)
> if (err)
> /* The partition is unrecognized. So report I/O errors if there were
> any */
> res = err;
> - if (!res)
> - strlcat(state->pp_buf, " unknown partition table\n", PAGE_SIZE);
> - else if (warn_no_part)
> - strlcat(state->pp_buf, " unable to read partition table\n",
> PAGE_SIZE);
> -
> - printk(KERN_INFO "%s", state->pp_buf);
> + if (res) {
> + if (warn_no_part)
> + strlcat(state->pp_buf,
> + " unable to read partition table\n", PAGE_SIZE);
> + printk(KERN_INFO "%s", state->pp_buf);
> + }
>
> free_page((unsigned long)state->pp_buf);
> free_partitions(state);
> ---
> Not-Signed-off-yet: Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com>
Were you going to send a tested patch with the commit message?
--
Jens Axboe
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