Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261196AbVEFM3u (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 08:29:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261203AbVEFM3u (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 08:29:50 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:41869 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261196AbVEFM3t (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 08:29:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 14:29:43 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andries Brouwer , aebr@win.tue.nl, hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table Message-ID: <20050506122943.GG25418@apps.cwi.nl> References: <055UDZ711@server5.heliogroup.fr> <20050505161610.GA4604@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050505194342.5ecde856.akpm@osdl.org> <20050506111445.GC25418@apps.cwi.nl> <20050506044720.2bb95792.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050506044720.2bb95792.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 18 On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:47:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > How about the old fallback? > > So add a new boot option `msdos_skip_null_part' to enable this workaround. Oh, horrors! Andrew, you do not want this. This is much worse than leaving that patch or removing it. Options are evil. In this particular case options are terrible. Andries - 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/