bug#32119: Parted molests system firmware partitions.

2018-08-22 Thread Phillip Susi
On 7/19/2018 6:56 PM, Laurence Perkins (OE) wrote: > I'm running parted 3.2, which appears to be the latest available > release on the gnu.org ftp site, as well as in my distribution > (Gentoo). However it's also older than that commit, so it probably > does not have it. Yea, we really need to

bug#32119: Parted molests system firmware partitions.

2018-07-19 Thread Laurence Perkins (OE)
On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 15:24 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +, Laurence Perkins (OE) > wrote: > > Calling parted -l however attempts to open these devices read- > > write. > > Which fails and generates a dmesg entry that, prior to the 4.14 > > kernel, > > wa

bug#32119: Parted molests system firmware partitions.

2018-07-19 Thread Laurence Perkins (OE)
On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 15:24 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +, Laurence Perkins (OE) > wrote: > > Calling parted -l however attempts to open these devices read- > > write. > > Which fails and generates a dmesg entry that, prior to the 4.14 > > kernel, > > wa

bug#32119: Parted molests system firmware partitions.

2018-07-19 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +, Laurence Perkins (OE) wrote: > Calling parted -l however attempts to open these devices read-write. > Which fails and generates a dmesg entry that, prior to the 4.14 kernel, > was difficult to distinguish from the messages generated by a failing > eMMC dev

bug#32119: Parted molests system firmware partitions.

2018-07-10 Thread Laurence Perkins (OE)
A few of the cheaper devices I work with have the system firmware, the RPMB, and the primary block device all backed by the same onboard eMMC flash chip. The special ones show up as /dev/mmcblk1boot0 and /dev/mmcblk1rpmb respectively. The kernel drivers for the eMMC device automatically detect th