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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] blkdev: add function to add named read-only
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:44:40AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Add function bdev_add_partition_ro() which can be used by drivers to
> register named read-only partitions on a disk device.
> Unlike the existing bdev_add_partition() function, there is also no
> check for overlapping partitions.
> This new function is going to be used by the uImage.FIT parser.

Err, no.  No on has any business adding partitions to the block device
except for the partition parser.