Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759301AbYFGWT4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:19:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753715AbYFGWTs (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:19:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35723 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753013AbYFGWTr (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:19:47 -0400 Message-ID: <484B02CF.6000606@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:51:11 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, jejb@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Domenico Andreoli , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Marcin Krol , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 21/50] brd: dont show ramdisks in /proc/partitions References: <20080607010215.358296706@sous-sol.org> <20080607010610.796754560@sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: <20080607010610.796754560@sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 20 Chris Wright wrote: > From: Marcin Krol > > I also think that someone somewhere (long time ago) excluded ramdisks from > /proc/partitions for good reasons. It is possible that now such new > "feature" is harmless, but I think there are more chances that someone > will say "hey, /proc/partitions has changed, now my software doesn't work" > then "hey where did my new 2.6.25 feature go". nbd devices are also > excluded, maybe for very same (unknown to me) reasons. This seems a bit like cargo cult programming to me. If there isn't a known, good, reason to revert this behaviour change, I would consider it a bugfix, not a regression. -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/