Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:28:19 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [stable] [patch 21/50] brd: dont show ramdisks in /proc/partitions |
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Chris Wright wrote: > * H. Peter Anvin (hpa@kernel.org) wrote: >> This seems a bit like cargo cult programming to me. If there isn't a >> known, good, reason to revert this behaviour change, I would consider it >> a bugfix, not a regression. > > We have one /proc/partitions parser that got broken (never saw details > on how). I don't care for this change either (esp. since nbd is still > left out...it's inconsistent). > > This is now the upstream behaviour (obvious since it's a -stable > candidate), and the change was introduced in 2.6.25...I'd actually prefer > to drop this patch, but there's no good reason to deviate if upstream > keeps this one. I can defer while upstream gets revisited, can you > revisit this upstream?
I had to ask Chris offline what he meant with this... basically, he and I both agree that absent hard evidence of malfunction, we should revert to 2.6.25 behaviour.
-hpa
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