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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:53:24 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: restore original behavior of /proc/partition when  there's no partition
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On Sat, Aug 30 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> /proc/partitions didn't use to write out the header if there was no
> partition.  However, recent commit 66c64afe changed the behavior.
> This is nothing major but there's no reason to change user visible
> behavior without a good rationale.  Restore the original behavior.
> 
> Note that 2.6.28 has clean up changes scheduled which will replace
> this rather hacky implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

I agree, queued up.

-- 
Jens Axboe