Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759984AbXFBU3v (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:29:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753268AbXFBU3o (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:29:44 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:35291 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754760AbXFBU3n (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:29:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4661D32B.2040706@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:29:31 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Schleifer CC: aeb@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device References: <20070602205513.0312ebe0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070602205513.0312ebe0@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 18 Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > Hello. > > This patch adds a new kernel parameter (ignore_partitions=device) to > the kernel. It is useful when using a fake RAID with dmraid so that > Linux won't complain about attemps to access the drive beyond its > boundaries when udev and/or hald are started. > This seems broken. If nothing else, there should be ways to enable or disable this at runtime. -hpa - 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/