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Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have received a number of bug reports (353400, 358913, 359207) against
> kernel packages about the check for the Cumana partition table, commonly
> found on Acorn machines. Being too lax, this check occasionally produces
> false positives for VFAT partition tables, preventing the proper mounting
> of USB sticks. The easy solution is, naturally, to disable support for
> this partition table by disabling CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA. I wonder
> if there are any known cases of people using disks with this partition
> table with our kernels. Can there be any other negative consequences?
Probably not for a rather long time. Of course, it's possible, but
these people would be so rare that they would be using a custom kernel,
and the SCSI support to which this relates is perhaps questionable. You
should disable it.
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