On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:59:42 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:21:08 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This patchset teaches the kernel about hybrid master boot records (MBRs), > > > one of > > > the most common issues with GUID partition tables, as a workaround to > > > layout > > > disk partitions to be compatible with both EFI and legacy MBR based > > > systems. > > > Except for adding more pmbr checks, to better comply with the UEFI/GPT > > > specs, the > > > functionality is left unchanged - we only inform (through debug) the user > > > about > > > the used MBR scheme. While it is true that these restrictions can be > > > bypassed when > > > forcing gpt, this is not the correct or default way of doing things, > > > complicating > > > users furthermore. More details are in the individual patches. > > > > Patches look nice, although I'll cheerily admit to not having a clue > > what they do. What is a "hybrid MBR" anyway? > > > > Someone's editor seems to replace tabs with spaces so the patches > > generate quite a checkpatch storm. Please use checkpatch. > > > > Andrew, any chance of getting this in for 3.12? gee, I didn't review the patches because I simply have no useful knowledge in the area. I can check the whitespace and code comments, but that has the downside of creating the false impression that someone actually reviewed the code :( I'm struggling to think who might be better situated. Matt Fleming or Matt Domsch, maybe? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
