From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
aebr@win.tue.nl, hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 14:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050506122943.GG25418@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050506044720.2bb95792.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:47:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> How about the old fallback?
>
> So add a new boot option `msdos_skip_null_part' to enable this workaround.
Oh, horrors! Andrew, you do not want this.
This is much worse than leaving that patch or removing it.
Options are evil.
In this particular case options are terrible.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-06 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-24 14:37 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table Hubert Tonneau
2005-05-05 16:16 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-05-06 2:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-06 11:14 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-05-06 11:47 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-06 12:29 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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2005-04-24 19:15 Hubert Tonneau
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2005-04-25 2:31 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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