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 15:21:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4661ED70.5000208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070602233435.4c432bc5@localhost>
Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
>> This seems broken. If nothing else, there should be ways to enable or
>> disable this at runtime.
>
> What exactly do you consider broken?
> I don't really see a way to change that at runtime since hard disk
> partition tables are read at bootup. Or did you mean to change the
> device where the partition table should be ignored at runtime, so one
> could enable/disable it and reattach the device under the condition
> that it's a removable device?
Partition tables aren't just read at bootup. We also adjust partition
tables at runtime. Since this is dynamic, ignoring partition tables
should be, too.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-02 22:21 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
2007-06-02 21:34 ` Jonathan Schleifer
2007-06-02 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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