From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/5 v2] brd: partition fixes Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:57:04 +0300 Message-ID: <53FDFFD0.8090503@plexistor.com> References: <53FDF7AD.5000709@plexistor.com> <87wq9u7x77.fsf@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ross Zwisler , linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel To: Dmitry Monakhov , Jens Axboe , Matthew Wilcox Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:39036 "EHLO mail-wg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935032AbaH0P5J (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:57:09 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id b13so411516wgh.34 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:57:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wq9u7x77.fsf@openvz.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/27/2014 06:45 PM, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:22:21 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: <> >> [v2] >> Based on Jens's linux-next [30e996a] incorporating the brd patch by Dmitry Monakhov. >> Dmitry has introduced a new part_show parameter, this parameter is now >> removed > In which commit or kernel-tree this parameter was removed? I mean after this patchset, see patch [PATCH 4/5] brd: Fix all partitions BUGs It will remove this param >> and we always "part_show=1". >> Scripts that did part_show=1 will work just the same but will display a >> message in logs. This is harmless. (And scripts can be modified to >> remove this parameter) > Which script are you talking about? Why you want use it? > I meant that if any user-mode code was doing modprobe brd part_show=1 Then this "part_show=1" is now deprecated and can be removed Though the part_show=1 has not yet been released in any kernel and it is a very low chance that any one had a chance to use it Thanks Boaz