Chris Wright wrote:
 > From: Marcin Krol <hawk@pld-linux.org>
 >
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> I also think that someone somewhere (long time ago) excluded ramdisks from
> /proc/partitions for good reasons.  It is possible that now such new
> "feature" is harmless, but I think there are more chances that someone
> will say "hey, /proc/partitions has changed, now my software doesn't work"
> then "hey where did my new 2.6.25 feature go".  nbd devices are also
> excluded, maybe for very same (unknown to me) reasons.

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.

	-hpa
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