From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] initrd: Fix logged Minix/Ext2 block numbers in identify_ramdisk_image()
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:31:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250915043141.GM1587915@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250915122146.56f66eb2.ddiss@suse.de>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:21:46PM +1000, David Disseldorp wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:39:54 +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
>
> > Both Minix and Ext2 filesystems are located at 'start_block + 1'. Update
> > the log messages to report the correct block numbers.
>
> I don't think this change is worthwhile. The offset of the superblock
> within the filesystem image is an implementation detail.
...and even if logging the detail is useful, for ext* the superblock is
always at byte offset 1024, no matter which block (0 or 1) that is.
--D
> > Replace printk(KERN_NOTICE) with pr_notice() to avoid checkpatch
> > warnings.
> >
> > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
>
> Nothing is being fixed here.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-15 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-13 10:39 Thorsten Blum
2025-09-15 2:21 ` David Disseldorp
2025-09-15 4:31 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2025-09-15 10:30 ` Thorsten Blum
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