Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755846Ab3HFVQH (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:16:07 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56264 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753268Ab3HFVQE (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:16:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:16:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Jens Axboe , Matt Domsch , Jim Hull , Karel Zak , Peter Jones , Chegu Vinod , Aswin Chandramouleeswaran , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] partitions/efi: detect hybrid mbrs Message-Id: <20130806141603.948961cecfc9426aeee7c083@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1375766476-4204-1-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com> References: <1375766476-4204-1-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1207 Lines: 22 On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:21:08 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/