Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262021AbVD0U7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:59:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262017AbVD0U7a (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:59:30 -0400 Received: from karnickel.franken.de ([193.141.110.11]:12810 "EHLO karnickel.franken.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262012AbVD0U6y (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:58:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [04/07] partitions/msdos.c fix From: Erik Tews To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , Cliff White , "Theodore Ts'o" , "Randy.Dunlap" , Chuck Wolber , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: <20050427203440.GA26759@apps.cwi.nl> References: <20050427171446.GA3195@kroah.com> <20050427171627.GE3195@kroah.com> <20050427203440.GA26759@apps.cwi.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:49:28 +0200 Message-Id: <1114634968.18249.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 31 Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2005, 22:34 +0200 schrieb Andries Brouwer: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:16:27AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > Erik reports this fixes an oops on boot for him. > > No objections. But.. > > The purpose of this patch was not to fix an oops, but to avoid > partition table parsing in a situation where almost surely > no partition table is present. > > If this fixes an oops, then I want to know precisely what oops. > No doubt that same oops could occur in other circumstances where > this patch does not happen to help. Hi, this happend on my laptop (ibm thinkpad t41p, intel cpu, no special kind of partition layout). Because this happend during partition table parsing (during bootup), I was not able to copy it. But this should only affect the first 512 bytes of my harddisk, or? If so, I can copy this data and send it to you. - 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/