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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jonathan Schleifer <js@h3c.de>
Cc: aeb@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:29:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4661D32B.2040706@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070602205513.0312ebe0@localhost>

Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> This patch adds a new kernel parameter (ignore_partitions=device) to
> the kernel. It is useful when using a fake RAID with dmraid so that
> Linux won't complain about attemps to access the drive beyond its
> boundaries when udev and/or hald are started.
> 

This seems broken.  If nothing else, there should be ways to enable or
disable this at runtime.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-02 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-02 18:55 [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device Jonathan Schleifer
2007-06-02 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-02 21:34   ` Jonathan Schleifer
2007-06-02 22:21     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 22:43       ` Jonathan Schleifer
2007-06-02 23:49         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 22:54 ` Andries Brouwer
     [not found] <fa.4wKuD5mNHMp1umbfR+OImkVtgUw@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.vZzvuMSQgFqVdMg4HFBBvE7gt1s@ifi.uio.no>
2007-06-03  6:39   ` Robert Hancock

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