block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct

I'm reposting this patch series as v4 since there have been no additional
comments, and I cleaned up one extra bit of unneeded code (in 3/3). The patches
are against Linus's tree: 2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c
(2.6.36-rc3).

Would this patchset be suitable for inclusion in an mm branch?

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>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.h b/fs/partitions/check.h
index 8e4e103ba216..d68bf4dc3bc2 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.h
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/genhd.h>
 
 /*
  * add_gd_partition adds a partitions details to the devices partition
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ struct parsed_partitions {
                 sector_t from;
                 sector_t size;
                 int flags;
+                bool has_info;
+                struct partition_meta_info info;
         } parts[DISK_MAX_PARTS];
         int next;
         int limit;