[PATCH 01/31] block: also call ->open for incremental partition opens
Christian Brauner
brauner at kernel.org
Wed Jun 7 01:14:22 PDT 2023
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 09:39:20AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> For whole devices ->open is called for each open, but for partitions it
> is only called on the first open of a partition. This is problematic
> as various block drivers look at open flags and might not do all setup
> for ioctl only or NDELAY opens.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
This assumes that all drivers deal with additional ->open() calls for
each partition correctly which I assumed you checked so,
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
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