On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:37:19PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:59:42 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidl...@hp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:21:08 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidl...@hp.com>
> > > > 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?
> >
>
> Cc'ing Matt Fleming.
>
> Karel, I believe you took a look at these, any thoughts?
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <k...@redhat.com>
Karel
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