What that patch does is making the first open _always_ assume that we need to
revalidate/reread partition table and kills partition-parsing in
register_disk(); instead we just have it do open/close and let the
revalidation path in open do the job.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>