On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:34:11AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > Sorry, meant to. In principle I'm OK with this as the lever for the > > hack (largely because it means we don't need to do anything) but will > > the distributions support it? > > While I can't speak for the distributions, it's reasonable to assume > that if something becomes part of the upstream kernel then they will > include it.
Btw, we do have precedence for looking at partition tables from SCSI code with scsi_partsize(), so the layering violation of looking at EFI labels for disks sizes wouldn't be something entirely new even if we did it in kernel space. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
