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

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Message-ID: <1376617039.2389.2.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:37:19 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] partitions/efi: detect hybrid mbrs

On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?
> 

Cc'ing Matt Fleming.

Karel, I believe you took a look at these, any thoughts?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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