Re: [PATCH] Don't register integrity profile for disabled disks

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:08 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Avoid registering a block integrity profile if the disk has been
> disabled earlier in the probe process.

This is a possible thing to have happen for devices with SCSI-2
reservations ... and that's not a permanenet condition.  When the
reservation is released, tools usually do a BLKRRPART, but that won't
pick up the DIF information ... perhaps this should be in
sd_revalidate_disk?

James


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