linux-ext4 - Re: 答复: 答复: 答复: 答复: 答复: [PATCH] ext4: e2fsprogs: fix inode bitmap num not integer,incompatible for ancient android devices

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Message-ID: <20180702121654.GA15131@thunk.org>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 08:16:54 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     "Gaoming (ming, consumer BG)" <gaoming20@...wei.com>
Cc:     "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Liqingchao (sorp)" <sorp.liqingchao@...wei.com>,
        "Shenchen (harry)" <harry.shen@...wei.com>,
        "miaoxie (A)" <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        "yangfei (D)" <yangfei39@...wei.com>,
        "Renlipeng (OS driver)" <renlipeng@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: 答复: 答复: 答复: 答复: 答复: [PATCH] ext4: e2fsprogs: fix inode bitmap num not integer,incompatible for
 ancient android devices

On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 09:34:28AM +0000, Gaoming (ming, consumer BG) wrote:
> I got it. You hate make_ext4fs, and me too.
> You don't like to merge this patch in upstream e2fsprogs to resolve the bug of make_ext4fs.
> 
> Of course we will fix the bug on our ancient devices, we have to .
> If this problem fixed or this patch merges in latest e2fsprogs, we will backport the latest e2fsprogs.
> If not, we have no motivation to backport it.
> 
> I don't know whether other android devices suffer this problem.

Can you be explicit and tell me how many Huawei devices uses a block
size of 1024?  And can you help me understand *why* such a choice was made?

     	       	       	   	   	      - Ted