linux-ext4 - Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

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Message-ID: <20061129092023.GA23101@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:20:24 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:30:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:40:00 +0000
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Yet another attempt to get a response from Andrew.  It is rather
> > important that you DO respond to this.
> 
> You can read the code as easily as I can?

Sigh.  Please don't cut the relevant part of my _first_ email message
where it can be clearly seen that I _have_ read the code and interpreted
it _differently_ from you.

> I'm not really sure what you're asking - I thought Mingming cleared
> things up.

Which message did this happen?

What I'm looking for is confirmation of the semantics of
find_next_zero_bit(), which is a fairly simple question to ask, and
certainly does not justify this rather obtuse and difficult thread.

<extremely frustrated>

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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