From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: martin@dalecki.de
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, johninsd@san.rr.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption?
Date: 08 Aug 2002 14:23:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028813033.28882.37.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D525489.3050209@evision.ag>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 9:08 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-08 9:24 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-08 9:34 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-08 11:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-08 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 11:22 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 13:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-08-08 12:18 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 18:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-09 0:11 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-09 6:27 ` Marcin Dalecki
[not found] ` <3D523B25.5 <20020808181100Z315277-685+26763@vger.kernel.org>
2002-08-09 6:25 ` Marcin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-08 18:22 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 22:36 ` John Coffman
2002-08-09 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-08 12:29 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-07 18:43 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 7:46 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-06 22:27 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-07 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 17:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-01 13:45 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-01 13:48 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-01 15:02 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 15:12 ` Alan Cox
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