Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:21:36 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device |
| |
Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> This seems broken. If nothing else, there should be ways to enable or >> disable this at runtime. > > What exactly do you consider broken? > I don't really see a way to change that at runtime since hard disk > partition tables are read at bootup. Or did you mean to change the > device where the partition table should be ignored at runtime, so one > could enable/disable it and reattach the device under the condition > that it's a removable device?
Partition tables aren't just read at bootup. We also adjust partition tables at runtime. Since this is dynamic, ignoring partition tables should be, too.
-hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |