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    block: add partition attribute for partition number · 0fc71e3d
    Tejun Heo authored
    With extended devt, finding out the partition number becomes a bit
    more challenging as subtracting the minor number from that of the
    parent device doesn't work anymore.  The only thing left is parsing
    the partition name which is brittle and not exactly universal (some
    have '-' between the device name and partition number while others
    don't).  This patch introduced partition attribute which contains the
    partition number of the device.  This should make finding partitions
    and its index easier.
    
    This problem and solution were suggested by H. Peter Anvin.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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