block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN

There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions.  disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland.  show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
     not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 1124cd29726..5c74efc0190 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static int blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
         struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
         int res;
 
-        if (!disk_partitionable(disk) || bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
+        if (!disk_part_scan_enabled(disk) || bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
                 return -EINVAL;
         if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                 return -EACCES;