[parted-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Remove loop_get_partition_range

[Petr Uzel]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:51:58AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 12/02/2011 04:07 AM, Petr Uzel wrote:
> | If you load loop module without max_part argument, the loop devices
> | will have their ext_range sysfs attributes == 1 (here on kernel-3.1),
> | so parted won't attempt to inform the kernel about the partitions. Do
> | I miss something?
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> I get 256 here on 3.2-rc3.

Me too, on 3.2-rcX. The difference to 3.1 is likely linux kernel commit 
e03c8dd14915fabc101aa495828d58598dc5af98

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/15/185

So for older kernels, the (ugly) parsing of loop module params is
necessary.


Petr

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