Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:47:46 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] efi: add option for MSR partition. | From | NamJae Jeon <> |
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2011/11/12 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:52:55AM -0600, Namjae Jeon wrote: >> After formatting GUID table on MS windows, MSR(Windows Reserved >> Partition) is not visible on MS windows. But this partition is >> visible in linux. User don't want to see the stranged partitin. So I >> try to add option that user can select MSR partition to be visible >> or not in linux. > > Hello Namjae. Thank you for your patch, however, I do not agree with > your reasoning. I understand Windows wishes to hide this partition > from its users. That is entirely their choice. Linux, on the other > hand, has not hidden this partition from users since it GPT was first > created over a decade ago. Your patch changes user-visible > behavior. Furthermore, disk partitioning tools such as GNU Parted, > which parse GPT, will be highly confused when the partition table on > disk has indices 1..N, but /proc/partitions now reports indices > 1..(N-1), where the first partition was skipped, and now the whole > list is "off by one". > > As such, I cannot recommend your patch be applied. Hi Matt. Thanks for your opinion. I got your point. > > Thanks, > Matt > > > -- > Matt Domsch > Technology Strategist > Dell | Office of the CTO > -- 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/
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