Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:25:31 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: New large block-device patch for 2.5.31+bk |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:08:29PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > > Hi, > Here's the latest large-block device patch. Expect more > changes as Al Viro continues his partition cleanup (I've just > converted int *xxx_sizes to sector_t *xxx_sizes; he's gradually > getting rid of xxx_sizes[] altogether --- and a good thing too!). > > I think I've addressed all the comments I've received so far, except > for the request for something that works on 2.4.X. > > The patch enables support for large (>2TB) block devices for all platforms > where sizeof(long)==8, and via a config option for power-PC and IA32. > It's been tested on IA64 and IA32 only.
I don't have much comments left :) What about moving the sector_t typedef completly to <asm/types.h>? Looks like the cleanest solution to me.
I also wonder whether CONFIG_LBD might want to move to arch/*/config.
An a little suggestion: you could feed that patch to Linus in pieces. The printk cleanups might be a good start.
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