Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On 08/04/2010 04:04 AM, Will Drewry wrote:
> This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a
> union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata.
> 
> This change leaves the union empty. The subsequent patch includes an
> implementation for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION-based metadata.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>

Generally looks good to me.

>  /*
>   * add_gd_partition adds a partitions details to the devices partition
>   * description.
> @@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ struct parsed_partitions {
>  		sector_t from;
>  		sector_t size;
>  		int flags;
> +		struct partition_meta_info *info;
>  	} parts[DISK_MAX_PARTS];

But you can just embed the structure here.  It's a temp data structure
to make things easier for individual partition scan code.  There's no
need to save bytes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun