Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757242AbYJKBnq (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:43:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754490AbYJKBnh (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:43:37 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38112 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754471AbYJKBnh (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:43:37 -0400 Message-ID: <48F00476.6030108@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:42:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [bug] latest -git boot hang References: <20081010203043.GA11798@elte.hu> <20081010204015.GA15668@elte.hu> <20081010205642.GA28840@elte.hu> <48EFF84B.5060108@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <48EFF84B.5060108@kernel.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: 791 Lines: 23 Tejun Heo wrote: > > Yeap, if fedora didn't work, I think it should be hidden. Do we already > have place to hide things like this? > By the way, I don't see anything in this patchset that lets userspace discover the parent device. Since the old rule of partition device = parent device + partition number ... no longer holds, this is a serious omission for something that is in mainstream (and therefore *requires* that a new interface is deployed for anything that cares.) This will have to be addressed before 2.6.28 final. -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/