Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262179AbVEFCoU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 22:44:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262195AbVEFCoU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 22:44:20 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54660 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262179AbVEFCoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 22:44:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:43:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andries Brouwer Cc: hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table Message-Id: <20050505194342.5ecde856.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050505161610.GA4604@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <055UDZ711@server5.heliogroup.fr> <20050505161610.GA4604@pclin040.win.tue.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 451 Lines: 11 Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Earlier Linux disregarded partition types, today 0 means "unused". A number of people are being bitten by this. Don't you think we should revert this change? - 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/