The current fdasd code present in parted prevents DASDs attached non-natively, for example, through virtblk, from being recognized as such and, thus, prevent proper partitioning.
The following changes are implemented in this series: 1. Update parted with fdasd.c code from s390-tools to not rely on the DASD specific ioctl's anymore. 2. Adapt the parted code to be able to handle disks in DASD format irrespective of the used block device driver. 3. Add protection against messing up non-DASD block devices through better error checking. Changes in the v2 series: - Use translatable strings and enhanced error handling. - Avoid API changes Viktor Mihajlovski (2): fdasd: geometry handling updated from upstream s390-tools dasd: enhance device probing include/parted/fdasd.in.h | 4 +- libparted/arch/linux.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++---- libparted/device.c | 14 +--- libparted/labels/dasd.c | 18 ++--- libparted/labels/fdasd.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 5 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
