From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:52:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: partitions: warn about the partition exceeding device capacity
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=02c33b123e59cab5771e52a012aeb810500260a2;p=linux-beck.git

partitions: warn about the partition exceeding device capacity

The current warning message says only about the kernel's action taken
without mentioning the underlying reason behind it.

Noticed-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 99e33ef40be4..137a708bb215 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -564,7 +564,8 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
 			 * creating invalid block devices
 			 */
 			printk(KERN_WARNING
-			       "%s: p%d size %llu limited to end of disk\n",
+			       "%s: p%d size %llu exceeds device capacity, "
+			       "limited to end of disk\n",
 			       disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) size);
 			size = get_capacity(disk) - from;
 		}