Re: GUID Partition Type and custom partition types
Re: GUID Partition Type and custom partition types
- Subject: Re: GUID Partition Type and custom partition types
- From: Jim O'Connor <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:04:15 -0500
I want my filter to match on EITHER an Apple Partition Table or a
Guid Partition Table.
I've set up my Info.plist like so (most of it is straight from the
sample code, so I'll assume it is right)...
<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
<dict>
<key>Company_NULL_Filtered_HFS</key>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.company.iomediafilter.nullfilter</string>
<key>Content Hint</key>
<string>Company_NULL_Filtered_HFS 5EA7E2D2-
DFD0-4A68-9E7A-3EB6E18DCB64</string>
<key>IOClass</key>
<string>com_ company_iomediafilter_nullfilter</string>
<key>IOMatchCategory</key>
<string>IOStorage</string>
<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>IOMedia</string>
</dict>
</dict>
My understanding is that the space separated strings indicate an "or"
type of condition. "Some of the keys may take a list of space-
delimited values, which are generally examined in an OR fashion."
from Driver Personalities and Matching Languages in IOKitFundamentals.
I build this KEXT, test it as the READ ME describes, using both an
APT and GPT disk image and everything appears to be happy.
Then leave it alone for a while and when I come back I get:
kextload: NullFilter.kext loaded successfully
hdiutil: attach failed - no mountable file systems"
I remove either the GUID or the Company_NULL_Filtered_HFS from the
info.plist and force it to rebuild and run the test again and the one
which is in works and the one which is out doesn't.
Wait a minute for the kext to unload.
Put them both back into the hint and either type of disk will work.
Wait a while and neither will work.
There is something going on with the caching of the kext that is
messing me up, I guess.
Is there any light to be shed on this? Is this the correct way to
make a single KEXT handle either type of partition?
Thanks,
Jim
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