From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262476AbUGFB4l (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:56:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262547AbUGFB4l (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:56:41 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:26548 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262476AbUGFB4k (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:56:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 03:56:20 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andries Brouwer , Andries Brouwer , "Patrick J. LoPresti" , bug-parted@gnu.org, Steffen Winterfeldt , Thomas Fehr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Clausen , buytenh@gnu.org, msw@redhat.com Subject: Re: Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics for 2.6 (was: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics) Message-ID: <20040706015620.GA12659@apps.cwi.nl> References: <200407052352.51135.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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