> * H. Peter Anvin (
hpa@kernel.org) wrote:
>> 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.
>
> We have one /proc/partitions parser that got broken (never saw details
> on how). I don't care for this change either (esp. since nbd is still
> left out...it's inconsistent).
>
> This is now the upstream behaviour (obvious since it's a -stable
> candidate), and the change was introduced in 2.6.25...I'd actually prefer
> to drop this patch, but there's no good reason to deviate if upstream
> keeps this one. I can defer while upstream gets revisited, can you
> revisit this upstream?
