Thanks for your attention.
I think It only matters when there're many scsi controllers but less disks like
one disk per controller.
Even in such case
The main user of nr_real does
genhd.c:part_show()
/* show the full disk and all non-0 size partitions of it */
for (n = 0; n < (gp
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch fixes the nr_real count in sd.c, which is also used
> in genhd.c to print out the partitions/units. The problem is that
> nr_real is decremented on detach, the genhd's nr_sects is
> cleared but the entry is still t
Conincidentally I've found the same problem but fixed it differently.
Because nr_real is not real # of devices but max # of devices of a major #,
it doesn't need to be changed on disk add/remove.
1223c1223
< sd_gendisks[i].nr_real = 0;
---
> sd_gendisks[i].nr_real = SC
Hi,
This patch fixes the nr_real count in sd.c, which is also used
in genhd.c to print out the partitions/units. The problem is that
nr_real is decremented on detach, the genhd's nr_sects is
cleared but the entry is still there and is being counted
for when displaying the partitions. Thus when nr
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