On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:21:08 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <davidl...@hp.com> wrote:
> This patchset teaches the kernel about hybrid master boot records (MBRs), one > of > the most common issues with GUID partition tables, as a workaround to layout > disk partitions to be compatible with both EFI and legacy MBR based systems. > Except for adding more pmbr checks, to better comply with the UEFI/GPT specs, > the > functionality is left unchanged - we only inform (through debug) the user > about > the used MBR scheme. While it is true that these restrictions can be bypassed > when > forcing gpt, this is not the correct or default way of doing things, > complicating > users furthermore. More details are in the individual patches. Patches look nice, although I'll cheerily admit to not having a clue what they do. What is a "hybrid MBR" anyway? Someone's editor seems to replace tabs with spaces so the patches generate quite a checkpatch storm. Please use checkpatch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
