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<subtitle>Mageia Installer and base platform for many utilities</subtitle>
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<title>When writing a GPT partition table, merge all actions into a single commit.</title>
<updated>2017-03-14T22:22:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Martin Whitaker</name>
<email>mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk</email>
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<published>2017-03-05T19:08:06+00:00</published>
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This avoids unnecessary udev events, which in some cases were causing
udevd to trigger a kernel partition table reread, causing the kernel
to get out of sync with drakx.

In order to do so, the libparted bindings are enhanced so that we
manipulate a 'ped_disk' object:
- disk_open() returns such an object
- set_disk_type() is removed
- disk_commit() writes back the partition table and tell the kernel
  about it
  if we fails to write the partition table, we let
  partition_table::write() fire an exceptionc
  if we only have succeed in writing the partition table, we let
  partition_table::write() try harder (umounting partitions before
  trying againt to tell the kernel again)
- need_to_tell_kernel() is overrided

The last change is needed because we now tell the kernel about the new
partition layout in partition_table::gpt::write() when calling
disk_commit() while previously we were deferring that to
partition_table::write() which after having called the gpt's write()
calls tell_kernel() -&gt; c::tell_kernel_to_reread_partition_table()

So we must tell partition_table::write() that telling the kernel to
reread the partition_table is not needed if we already succeeded in
that.
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This avoids unnecessary udev events, which in some cases were causing
udevd to trigger a kernel partition table reread, causing the kernel
to get out of sync with drakx.

In order to do so, the libparted bindings are enhanced so that we
manipulate a 'ped_disk' object:
- disk_open() returns such an object
- set_disk_type() is removed
- disk_commit() writes back the partition table and tell the kernel
  about it
  if we fails to write the partition table, we let
  partition_table::write() fire an exceptionc
  if we only have succeed in writing the partition table, we let
  partition_table::write() try harder (umounting partitions before
  trying againt to tell the kernel again)
- need_to_tell_kernel() is overrided

The last change is needed because we now tell the kernel about the new
partition layout in partition_table::gpt::write() when calling
disk_commit() while previously we were deferring that to
partition_table::write() which after having called the gpt's write()
calls tell_kernel() -&gt; c::tell_kernel_to_reread_partition_table()

So we must tell partition_table::write() that telling the kernel to
reread the partition_table is not needed if we already succeeded in
that.
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<title>fix indentation</title>
<updated>2017-03-14T22:22:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Martin Whitaker</name>
<email>mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk</email>
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<published>2017-03-07T21:06:47+00:00</published>
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<title>simplify using ped_disk_probe()</title>
<updated>2017-03-14T22:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Whitaker</name>
<email>mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk</email>
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<published>2017-03-07T21:02:49+00:00</published>
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<title>(get_partition_flag) kill it</title>
<updated>2017-03-06T21:14:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thierry Vignaud</name>
<email>thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2017-03-06T21:14:05+00:00</published>
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it's unused since commit 1daabebda57976579465e5c281eaa14088e0e37f
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it's unused since commit 1daabebda57976579465e5c281eaa14088e0e37f
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<title>bind hid_probe()</title>
<updated>2017-03-06T15:49:22+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thierry Vignaud</name>
<email>thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2017-02-25T07:13:08+00:00</published>
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Needed for next commit
It could also be later used for drakx's lspci (like for ldetect's
lspcidrake)
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Needed for next commit
It could also be later used for drakx's lspci (like for ldetect's
lspcidrake)
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<title>regroup net includes like they were in the past</title>
<updated>2016-07-01T15:41:15+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thierry Vignaud</name>
<email>thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2016-07-01T15:31:30+00:00</published>
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<title>remove now useless compilation helper</title>
<updated>2016-07-01T15:41:15+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thierry Vignaud</name>
<email>thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2016-07-01T15:27:08+00:00</published>
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it was added in commit 58776de07de819cb962aa35e76c8379d96f03e6b
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it was added in commit 58776de07de819cb962aa35e76c8379d96f03e6b
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<title>detect GRUB_BIOS partitions (mga#18656)</title>
<updated>2016-06-11T07:39:32+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thierry Vignaud</name>
<email>thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2016-06-08T20:48:20+00:00</published>
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let's abuse -&gt;{pt_type} for tracking such partitions
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let's abuse -&gt;{pt_type} for tracking such partitions
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<title>no need to tell kernel to reread part table</title>
<updated>2015-06-21T11:18:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thierry Vignaud</name>
<email>thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2015-06-12T13:39:48+00:00</published>
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...when adding or deleting a partition or setting its flag
rationale: telling kernel to reread partition table is done later in
partition_table::write() whereas partition_table::gpt::write() job is
just to update partition table on disk.
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...when adding or deleting a partition or setting its flag
rationale: telling kernel to reread partition table is done later in
partition_table::write() whereas partition_table::gpt::write() job is
just to update partition table on disk.
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<entry>
<title>Speed up reading of flags from GPT partition table.</title>
<updated>2015-04-19T21:15:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Whitaker</name>
<email>mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk</email>
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<published>2015-04-19T20:35:31+00:00</published>
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On some machines, calls to ped_disk_new() in libparted take of
the order of seconds, so doing this for each flag and partition
in turn makes partition_table::gpt::read_one take an inordinate
amount of time (mga#15621). Instead, collect the flags during the
call to c::get_disk_partitions.
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On some machines, calls to ped_disk_new() in libparted take of
the order of seconds, so doing this for each flag and partition
in turn makes partition_table::gpt::read_one take an inordinate
amount of time (mga#15621). Instead, collect the flags during the
call to c::get_disk_partitions.
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