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authorSan Mehat <san@google.com>2009-10-10 09:35:24 -0700
committerBrian Swetland <swetland@google.com>2011-03-29 13:57:52 -0700
commit92dc67146f172a8021155a016265b1a10e77062b (patch)
tree9927bdcdc9b69f9378eb1b17aa5ca39c4e37cf0e /block
parent0ee06fc9cae575fa4dc8592f0d447c9f51a3ef6b (diff)
block: genhd: Add disk/partition specific uevent callbacks for partition info
For disk devices, a new uevent parameter 'NPARTS' specifies the number of partitions detected by the kernel. Partition devices get 'PARTN' which specifies the partitions index in the table. Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index cbf1112a885c..e70544beb83e 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,22 @@ static void disk_release(struct device *dev)
free_part_info(&disk->part0);
kfree(disk);
}
+
+static int disk_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
+{
+ struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);
+ struct disk_part_iter piter;
+ struct hd_struct *part;
+ int cnt = 0;
+
+ disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk, 0);
+ while((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
+ cnt++;
+ disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
+ add_uevent_var(env, "NPARTS=%u", cnt);
+ return 0;
+}
+
struct class block_class = {
.name = "block",
};
@@ -1123,6 +1139,7 @@ static struct device_type disk_type = {
.groups = disk_attr_groups,
.release = disk_release,
.devnode = block_devnode,
+ .uevent = disk_uevent,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS