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From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
	Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	"Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>,
	bug-parted@gnu.org, Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de>,
	Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>,
	buytenh@gnu.org, msw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics for 2.6 (was: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 03:56:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040706015620.GA12659@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0407060020110.29315-100000@mlf.linux.rulez.org>

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:17:47AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
...

We agree about most of the facts, and I am too lazy to quarrel anyway.
Such a waste of time. But we draw different conclusions.

We discover that the present combination of 2.6 and parted is
unfortunate. Because of bugs in parted. OK - so lets fix them.
There is nothing especially difficult there.

You prefer a larger change to the kernel above a smaller change
to parted, where the change to parted fixes parted, and the change
to the kernel makes the kernel buggier. I do not.

You say that other utilities are affected. Maybe, yes.
So let us look at them. In the time spent writing all these
letters we probably could have fixed a few.

Andries

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-06  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <s5gwu1mwpus.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>
2004-07-02 16:17 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 16:50   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:28     ` dwm
2004-07-02 21:12       ` parted maintainership Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 17:04   ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:12     ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 18:45       ` Patrick J. LoPresti
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407022025200.28638@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-02 19:57           ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03  0:17             ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03  0:42               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03  0:56                 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03  1:57                   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:59                   ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-05 12:14                   ` Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics for 2.6 (was: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 13:10                     ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 13:12                     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 13:13                     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 14:00                       ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 19:05                         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 21:08                           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 21:52                             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-06  0:17                               ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06  1:56                                 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-07-06 18:56                                   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-07  1:28                                     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-07 11:14                                       ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-07 11:51                                         ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06  8:33                                 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 18:09                       ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 18:58                         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03  3:00             ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andrew Clausen
2004-07-02 23:55         ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:56           ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03  2:54         ` Andrew Clausen
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407030843400.2415@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 12:44             ` Andrew Clausen
     [not found]               ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407031535230.6149@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 15:02                 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 14:42           ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03  1:35   ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 12:33     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 14:15     ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 14:45       ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 15:00         ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 20:12         ` Andries Brouwer

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