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To: Marcus Meissner <mm@ns.caldera.de>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enhancement of /proc/partitions output (2.5.1-pre5)
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At 08:47 01/12/01, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>In article <E16A5XI-0005Lr-00@DervishD.viadomus.com> you wrote:
> >     Hello Anton :)
>
> >>Please consider below patch which adds the starting sector and number of
> >>sectors to /proc/partitions.
>
> >     This is a *great* idea. I was wondering why this information is
> > not included by default :)))
>
> >     I have a somewhat 'special' partition scheme and that information
> > is vital for me. Thanks a lot for the patch. I hope that Marcello
> > accepts it for 2.4.17...
>
>Marcelo, don't apply to this to 2.4, a lot of userland applications rely
>on it.

Absolutely, the subject does say 2.5.1-pre5. I never intended it for 2.4.x...

Anton


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