From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, jejb@kernel.org,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Marcin Krol <hawk@pld-linux.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 21/50] brd: dont show ramdisks in /proc/partitions
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:51:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484B02CF.6000606@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080607010610.796754560@sous-sol.org>
Chris Wright wrote:
> From: Marcin Krol <hawk@pld-linux.org>
>
> I also think that someone somewhere (long time ago) excluded ramdisks from
> /proc/partitions for good reasons. It is possible that now such new
> "feature" is harmless, but I think there are more chances that someone
> will say "hey, /proc/partitions has changed, now my software doesn't work"
> then "hey where did my new 2.6.25 feature go". nbd devices are also
> excluded, maybe for very same (unknown to me) reasons.
This seems a bit like cargo cult programming to me. If there isn't a
known, good, reason to revert this behaviour change, I would consider it
a bugfix, not a regression.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-07 1:02 [patch 00/50] 2.6.25.6 -stable review Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 01/50] block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition> Chris Wright
2008-06-09 13:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-09 16:48 ` Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 02/50] POWERPC Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpus Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 03/50] USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 04/50] USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 05/50] USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 06/50] USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 07/50] USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in option driver Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 08/50] USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to " Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 09/50] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle() Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 10/50] libata: force hardreset if link is in powersave mode Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-07 1:57 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-06-07 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-07 3:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 11/50] memory_hotplug: always initialize pageblock bitmap Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 12/50] USB: fix build errors in ohci-omap.c and ohci-sm501.c Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 13/50] i2c-nforce2: Disable the second SMBus channel on the DFI Lanparty NF4 Expert Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 14/50] i2c/max6875: Really prevent 24RF08 corruption Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 15/50] x86: user_regset_view table fix for ia32 on 64-bit Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 16/50] i386: fix asm constraint in do_IRQ() Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 17/50] CIFS: Fix UNC path prefix on QueryUnixPathInfo to have correct slash Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 18/50] USB: add TELIT HDSPA UC864-E modem to option driver Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 19/50] usb-serial: Use ftdi_sio driver for RATOC REX-USB60F Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 20/50] cgroups: remove node_ prefix_from ns subsystem Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 21/50] brd: dont show ramdisks in /proc/partitions Chris Wright
2008-06-07 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-06-09 17:08 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2008-06-09 19:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-09 20:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 22/50] types.h: dont expose struct ustat to userspace Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 23/50] x86: dont read maxlvt before checking if APIC is mapped Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 24/50] IPoIB: Test for NULL broadcast object in ipiob_mcast_join_finish() Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 25/50] x86: fix setup of cyc2ns in tsc_64.c Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 26/50] x86: if we cannot calibrate the TSC, we panic Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 27/50] x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 28/50] x86: disable TSC for sched_clock() when calibration failed Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 29/50] XFS: Fix memory corruption with small buffer reads Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 30/50] x86: prevent PGE flush from interruption/preemption Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 31/50] Revert "PCI: remove default PCI expansion ROM memory allocation" Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 32/50] PS3: gelic: fix memory leak Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 33/50] netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 34/50] HID: split Numlock emulation quirk from HID_QUIRK_APPLE_HAS_FN Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 35/50] CPUFREQ: Make acpi-cpufreq more robust against BIOS freq changes behind our back Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 36/50] x86, fpu: fix CONFIG_PREEMPT=y corruption of applications FPU stack Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 37/50] netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: fix error path unwind in nf_conntrack_expect_init() Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 38/50] netfilter: xt_connlimit: fix accouning when receive RST packet in ESTABLISHED state Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 39/50] netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: fix inconsistent lock state in nf_ct_frag6_gather() Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 40/50] atl1: fix 4G memory corruption bug Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 41/50] Smack: fuse mount hang fix Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 42/50] proc: calculate the correct /proc/<pid> link count Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 43/50] pagemap: fix bug in add_to_pagemap, require aligned-length reads of /proc/pid/pagemap Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:02 ` [patch 44/50] brk: make sys_brk() honor COMPAT_BRK when computing lower bound Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:03 ` [patch 45/50] eCryptfs: remove unnecessary page decrypt call Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:03 ` [patch 46/50] md: do not compute parity unless it is on a failed drive Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:03 ` [patch 47/50] md: fix uninitialized use of mddev->recovery_wait Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:03 ` [patch 48/50] md: fix prexor vs sync_request race Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:03 ` [patch 49/50] capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support Chris Wright
2008-06-07 1:03 ` [patch 50/50] cpufreq: fix null object access on Transmeta CPU Chris Wright
2008-06-07 3:49 ` [patch 00/50] 2.6.25.6 -stable review Hugh Dickins
2008-06-07 4:24 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
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