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Message-ID: <87r5nqfpnl.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:40:30 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> writes:

> On 03/11/2010 02:17 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>
>> Those are all about the first (1/2) patch, not this second patch.
>> Personally, I'm thinking we should apply the first patch as bugfix.
>>
>> I'm talking about only second (2/2) patch in here.
>>
>
> The 2/2 patch seems to be a bug fix too; it implements the intent of the 
> original code as far as I can see.

Yes, however the state is not so sure if compared to first patch. So I
said, if we want, we can drop it (2/2), because it's not so sure to fix
the real problem (bootloader's requirement).

Even if we apply this patch too, it shouldn't introduce new problems
though.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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