Re: Fix partition detection in GNUMach

[James Morrison]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:32:32AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch fixes the partition detection in GNUMach 1.x.  Now an error
> is displayed when there is an extended partition on the harddrive.
> See bug #6378 on savannah for details.

 So with this patch the annoying error message is no longer displayed?

 Jim

> 2004-01-19  Marco Gerards  <metgerards@student.han.nl>
> 
>       * linux/dev/glue/block.c (init_partition): Don't check for BSD
>       partitions if the DOS partition is too small.
> 
> Index: linux/dev/glue/block.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/hurd/gnumach/linux/dev/glue/Attic/block.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.8.2.1
> diff -u -p -r1.8.2.1 block.c
> --- linux/dev/glue/block.c    16 Jan 2004 22:36:52 -0000      1.8.2.1
> +++ linux/dev/glue/block.c    19 Jan 2004 00:22:07 -0000
> @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ init_partition (struct name_map *np, kde
>        if (ds->fops->open && (*ds->fops->open) (&d->inode, &d->file))
>       continue;
>        lp = read_bsd_label (d->inode.i_rdev);
> -      if (! lp)
> +      if (! lp && gd->part[MINOR (d->inode.i_rdev)].nr_sects > PDLOCATION)
>       lp = read_vtoc (d->inode.i_rdev);
>        if (ds->fops->release)
>       (*ds->fops->release) (&d->inode, &d->file);