Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 08:23:53 EST


On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 12:22, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 1. Requiring the kernel to read the partition table information is a
> BUG.

We read it anyway to read the partitions for the block layer.

> 2. Falling back on the values which are used by the application
> afterwards is a BUG. (BIOS IRQ after all)

Breaking code is not a bug

> 3. Not detecting LBA disk access is required by checking Cylinder value
> to emulate BIOS behaviour is a BUG.

So why did you take it out ?

Thank you for reminding me why I've given up on the 2.5 kernel ever
working. Fortunately free software is self correcting so the tree can be
forked into something workable

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