Re: [PATCH 2.6.7-mm1] MBR centralization

[Andries Brouwer]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:15:49PM +0200, FabF wrote:
> 
> 	-DOS_EXTENDED_PARTITION washing#2
> 		(we don't want magic numbers, do we ?)
> 		-Remove use of <= 4 to < DOS_EXTENDED_PARTITION where needed

> -       for (slot = 1; slot <= 4; slot++, p++) {
> +       for (slot = 1; slot < DOS_EXTENDED_PARTITION; slot++, p++) {

Maybe you do not know, but the 5 of DOS_EXTENDED_PARTITION is the
value written in the sys_ind field of a partition.

It is totally unrelated to the 4 that is the upper bound of the
loop over the four primary partitions in a DOS-type partition table.
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