On 11/30/2016 01:22 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Both blkdev_report_zones and blkdev_reset_zones can operate on a partition of
> a zoned block device. However, the first and last zones reported for a
> partition make sense only if the partition start sector and size are aligned
> on the device zone size. The same applies for zone reset. Resetting the first
> or the last zone of a partition straddling zones may impact neighboring
> partitions. Finally, if a partition start sector is not at the beginning of a
> sequential zone, it will be impossible to write to the first sectors of the
> partition on a host-managed device.
> Avoid all these problems and incoherencies by ignoring partitions that are not
> zone aligned.

Let's try and keep the ZONED ifdefs to a minimum, I absolutely hate
having those sprinkled throughout the code. Less of an issue in the
headers.

bdev_is_zoned() is safe to call without the ifdef, and let's kill it
around the part_zone_aligned() function too. There's no need for either
one of the ifdefs below, as far as I can tell.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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