Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764919AbXHXXty (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:49:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755497AbXHXXtr (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:49:47 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36691 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755487AbXHXXtq (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:49:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:48:56 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Clements Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david@dgreaves.com, Wouter Verhelst , Corey Minyard Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0 Message-Id: <20070824164856.7024a95b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <46CF101F.4050603@steeleye.com> References: <46CF101F.4050603@steeleye.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-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: 623 Lines: 14 On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:06:39 -0400 Paul Clements wrote: > This fixes errors with utilities (such as LVM's vgscan) that try to scan > all devices. Previously this would generate read errors when > uninitialized nbd devices were scanned: I somewhat randomly marked both these as 2.6.24 material. If you think that was incorrect, please shout out. - 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/