Messages in this thread | | | From | "Zwisler, Ross" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 04/22] Change direct_access calling convention | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:30:02 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 21:04 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 07/31/2014 08:19 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:28:37PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >> Matthew what is your opinion about this, do we need to push for removal > >> of the partition dead code which never worked for brd, or we need to push > >> for fixing and implementing new partition support for brd? > > > > Fixing the code gets my vote. brd is useful for testing things ... and > > sometimes we need to test things that involve partitions. > > > > OK I'm on it, its what I'm doing today. > > rrr I manged to completely trash my vm by doing 'make install' of > util-linux and after reboot it never recovered, I remember that > mount complained about a now missing library and I forgot and rebooted, > that was the end of that. Anyway I installed a new fc20 system wanted > that for a long time over my old fc18
Ah, I'm already working on this as well. :) If you want you can wait for my patches to BRD & test - they should be out this week.
I'm planning on adding get_geo() and doing dynamic minors as is done in NVMe.
- Ross
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