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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] partitions/efi: detect hybrid mbrs
From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
        Jim Hull <jim.hull@hp.com>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
        Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>, Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
        Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:59:42 -0700
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On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon,  5 Aug 2013 22:21:08 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@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?

Thanks,
Davidlohr


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