On 10/30/2013 6:59 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: >> So, need to validate calling 'dasd_read()' from 'dasd_alloc()' is >> the correct thing or not. > > I don't think you actually want to read the disk, just have the same > code to insert the implicit partition in dasd_alloc() that dasd_read() > has.
dasd_read functionality having 280 lines of code out of which 170 lines of code for FBA kind of disks. The dasd_read's FBA code can not be copied so easily, because it takes care of similar disks and many other conditions. I feel better to call dasd_read from dasd_alloc in the case of FBA disk. Sending second version of the patch. Regards R.Nageswara Sastry
