From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:23:16 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Allow a number after --auto=yes
X-Git-Tag: mdadm-2.5.4~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ba83b5f5e8946d49877229752e76a14b7672f69;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git

Allow a number after --auto=yes

So if the device name is /dev/md/d0, then the number of
partitions is as given.  This is useful in 'CREATE' in
mdadm.conf
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ea4a3e04..950ec68d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Changes Prior to this release
     -   Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects
 	bigendian only).
     -   Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata
+    -   Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto=
+	This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf.
 
 Changes Prior to 2.5.3 release
     -   Document v0.91 superblocks in md.4
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 219308dc..d251fbfb 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ int parse_auto(char *str, char *msg, int config)
 		len = e - str;
 		if ((len == 2 && strncasecmp(str,"md",2)==0)) {
 			autof = config ? 5 : 3;
+		} else if ((len == 3 && strncasecmp(str,"yes",3)==0)) {
+			autof = 2;
 		} else if ((len == 3 && strncasecmp(str,"mdp",3)==0)) {
 			autof = config ? 6 : 4;
 		} else if ((len == 1 && strncasecmp(str,"p",1)==0) ||