Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933250AbYCFLEZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:04:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764491AbYCFK5f (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:57:35 -0500 Received: from n38.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([87.248.110.171]:34823 "HELO n38.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1763795AbYCFK5e convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:57:34 -0500 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 671881.43509.bm@omp417.mail.mud.yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=GFzTTr9Q2yBhhROX/SQJddiBzfmXHf9yv1xJicxmZF4FKPTbms8eGPCcGSv8IBHZl99N0vhDpEXgwRS1HsAww13grMH1dybGd9Y76r7xwHsBWN4yp/ef748PnnBTjTDVQzYYCpqS2tw9czAjx1b1LUEXDowZbPd0tvosCwSpobU= ; X-YMail-OSG: EMAQ1sgVM1nWPtWqFXE3HjCm.N20rYTBu8zj6qqLmEUbx2p2Xc3334ptK5SgoqwlixR7CoWjiw-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Nick Piggin To: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:56:58 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1204796612842-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <200803062057.50181.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1204798585.4325.8.camel@frecb07144> In-Reply-To: <1204798585.4325.8.camel@frecb07144> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803062156.58230.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 17 On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:16, Laurent Vivier wrote: > Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 à 20:57 +1100, Nick Piggin a écrit : > > Do you think we do something similar for drivers/block/brd.c too? I'd > > like to try to maintain parity between them where possible... > > I think it is possible (I've the same patch for NBD too), but I think > it is completely useless. It's useful for testing, and for minimising the divergence in the code. -- 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/