From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
jassi brar <jassi_singh_brar@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: An idea .... with code
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827100147.GS26610@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B52506.6060205@davidnewall.com>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:27:26PM +0930, David Newall wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I fail to see what your patch generalizes? AFAIK it just adds a new
> > more narrow (less features than the old one) interface to create loop devices.
> >
>
> AFAYK it adds at least one new feature: partition tables.
kpartx does those for loop devices already.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 8:53 An idea .... with code jassi brar
2008-08-25 12:22 ` Jochen Voß
2008-08-25 20:53 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-08-26 2:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-08-26 8:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-26 10:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-26 11:08 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 7:24 ` jassi brar
2008-08-27 7:47 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 9:57 ` David Newall
2008-08-27 10:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-27 12:38 ` jassi brar
2008-08-27 12:47 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 14:49 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-08-27 15:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-28 1:24 ` jassi brar
2008-08-28 9:41 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-08-30 2:57 ` Bill Davidsen
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2008-08-27 0:44 jassi brar
2008-08-27 2:27 jassi brar
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