RE: cannot examine IMSM metadata on a disk in non-IMSM compliant system

From 492192b1777936ccaf745aeb73f83f55c12a5a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcin Labun <redacted>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:39:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] cannot examine IMSM metadata on a disk in non-IMSM compliant system

IMSM metadata handlers have following requirements:
- disk is attached to Intel controller (ahci or SAS)
- the whole disk set in one RAID volume belongs to the same controller
- IMSM OROM/EFI properties available

In non-IMSM system a user can always set IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1, so above requirements need not to be met.

This series allows a user can check if there is any IMSM metadata on the disk in non-IMSM compatible system without setting IMSM_NO_PLATFORM.
Please take a look at my patches for this issue.
The patches are still under testing, only basics has been checked.

Thanks,
Marcin Labun


Marcin Labun (2):
  examine: allows to examine a disk metadata on non-metadata compliant
    systems
  super-intel: enable loading metadata from non-IMSM compliant disks

 Examine.c     |    2 ++
 mdadm.h       |    6 +++++-
 super-intel.c |   16 ++++++++++------
 util.c        |    3 +++
 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)