From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: wangyanqing <udknight@gmail.com>
Cc: warns@pre-sense.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
jaxboe@fusionio.com, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs:partitions:efi.c: correct misuse force_gpt
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:56:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121165655.18224b14.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111122004434.GA6584@udknight.homenetwork>
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:44:34 +0800
wangyanqing <udknight@gmail.com> wrote:
> The primary gpt header maybe broken, so we should
> check the alternate gpt header no matter whether
> there is a gpt boot parameter.(The alternate gpt header
> is for this way).
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/partitions/efi.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/partitions/efi.c b/fs/partitions/efi.c
> index 6296b40..53fd92f 100644
> --- a/fs/partitions/efi.c
> +++ b/fs/partitions/efi.c
> @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ static int find_valid_gpt(struct parsed_partitions *state, gpt_header **gpt,
> good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state,
> le64_to_cpu(pgpt->alternate_lba),
> &agpt, &aptes);
> - if (!good_agpt && force_gpt)
> + if (!good_agpt)
> good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state, lastlba, &agpt, &aptes);
>
> /* The obviously unsuccessful case */
Please Cc Matt on patches to efi.c.
Neither scripts/get_maintainer.pl nor ./MAINTAINERS know that Matt
knows about efi.c, which is unfortunate. But his name and email address are
right there at the top of the file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 0:56 UTC|newest]
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2011-11-22 0:44 wangyanqing
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