This has to be done in ->load_super, not ->validate_super

Without this, hot-adding devices to an array doesn't always
work right - though there is a work around in mdadm-2.5.2 to
make this less of an issue.

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/md.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/md.c       2006-06-27 12:15:17.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c   2006-06-27 12:17:32.000000000 +1000
@@ -1064,6 +1064,11 @@ static int super_1_load(mdk_rdev_t *rdev
        if (rdev->sb_size & bmask)
                rdev-> sb_size = (rdev->sb_size | bmask)+1;
 
+       if (sb->level == cpu_to_le32(LEVEL_MULTIPATH))
+               rdev->desc_nr = -1;
+       else
+               rdev->desc_nr = le32_to_cpu(sb->dev_number);
+
        if (refdev == 0)
                ret = 1;
        else {
@@ -1173,7 +1178,6 @@ static int super_1_validate(mddev_t *mdd
        }
        if (mddev->level != LEVEL_MULTIPATH) {
                int role;
-               rdev->desc_nr = le32_to_cpu(sb->dev_number);
                role = le16_to_cpu(sb->dev_roles[rdev->desc_nr]);
                switch(role) {
                case 0xffff: /* spare */
-
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