Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752395Ab3JJXke (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:40:34 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f48.google.com ([209.85.212.48]:39584 "EHLO mail-vb0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751741Ab3JJXkd (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:40:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1381444274.2367.44.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <20131009232642.GA12776@jtriplet-mobl1> <1381365455.2297.14.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <1381440403.2367.32.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <1381444274.2367.44.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:40:32 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bHQSq469JqgVxg1JVcTrp3S44E0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Regression parsing GPT (EFI) partition tables From: Doug Anderson To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Bill Richardson , Josh Triplett , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Karel Zak , Matt Fleming , Sean Paul , Olof Johansson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1005 Lines: 24 Davidlohr, On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > Then you should *really* use the force_gpt option, which is there to > bypass any MBR checks, and you can avoid issues like this :) > > Anyway, this is still a regression and I believe we can go ahead and > just warn the user about the case instead of not recognizing the disk. > > Bill/Doug, care to send a formal patch (with corresponding comments)? OK, I've posted up at . As I've said, I haven't spent the time to really understand every last detail (I was just doing dumb git bisects), so if my explanation / comments don't actually make sense then please correct me. Thanks for your help in tracking this down! -Doug -- 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/