From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: New large block-device patch for 2.5.31+bk
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:25:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020822192531.A27750@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15716.29133.542866.358607@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>; from peter@chubb.wattle.id.au on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:08:29PM +1000
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:08:29PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Here's the latest large-block device patch. Expect more
> changes as Al Viro continues his partition cleanup (I've just
> converted int *xxx_sizes to sector_t *xxx_sizes; he's gradually
> getting rid of xxx_sizes[] altogether --- and a good thing too!).
>
> I think I've addressed all the comments I've received so far, except
> for the request for something that works on 2.4.X.
>
> The patch enables support for large (>2TB) block devices for all platforms
> where sizeof(long)==8, and via a config option for power-PC and IA32.
> It's been tested on IA64 and IA32 only.
I don't have much comments left :) What about moving the sector_t typedef
completly to <asm/types.h>? Looks like the cleanest solution to me.
I also wonder whether CONFIG_LBD might want to move to arch/*/config.
An a little suggestion: you could feed that patch to Linus in pieces.
The printk cleanups might be a good start.
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2002-08-22 5:08 Peter Chubb
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2002-08-22 23:27 ` Peter Chubb
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