linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] partitions/efi: detect hybrid mbrs

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Message-Id: <20130815122949.aff0bc4821e4adaec8eb359b@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:29:49 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Jim Hull <jim.hull@...com>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@...com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] partitions/efi: detect hybrid mbrs

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:59:42 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon,  5 Aug 2013 22:21:08 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patchset teaches the kernel about hybrid master boot records (MBRs), one of
> > > the most common issues with GUID partition tables, as a workaround to layout
> > > disk partitions to be compatible with both EFI and legacy MBR based systems.
> > > Except for adding more pmbr checks, to better comply with the UEFI/GPT specs, the
> > > functionality is left unchanged - we only inform (through debug) the user about
> > > the used MBR scheme. While it is true that these restrictions can be bypassed when
> > > forcing gpt, this is not the correct or default way of doing things, complicating
> > > users furthermore. More details are in the individual patches.
> > 
> > Patches look nice, although I'll cheerily admit to not having a clue
> > what they do.  What is a "hybrid MBR" anyway?
> > 
> > Someone's editor seems to replace tabs with spaces so the patches
> > generate quite a checkpatch storm.  Please use checkpatch.
> > 
> 
> Andrew, any chance of getting this in for 3.12?

gee, I didn't review the patches because I simply have no useful
knowledge in the area.  I can check the whitespace and code comments,
but that has the downside of creating the false impression that someone
actually reviewed the code :(

I'm struggling to think who might be better situated.  Matt Fleming or
Matt Domsch, maybe?

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