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From: Andi Kleen

Subject: Re: An idea .... with code

Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 3:01 am

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:27:26PM +0930, David Newall wrote:
quoted text> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I fail to see what your patch generalizes? AFAIK it just adds a new
> > more narrow (less features than the old one) interface to create loop devices.
> >   
> 
> AFAYK it adds at least one new feature: partition tables.

kpartx does those for loop devices already.

-Andi

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An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Sun Aug 24, 1:53 am)

[PATCH 00/18] merge apic_32.c and apic_64.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 01/18] x86: apic_64.c - setup_APIC_timer has to be ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 02/18] x86: apic - introduce get_physical_broadcast ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 03/18] x86: apic - unify setup_apicpmtimer, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 04/18] x86: apic_64.c - add sanity check for spurio ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 05/18] x86: apic - unify setup_local_APIC, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 06/18] x86: apic_32.c should use __cpuinit section, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 07/18] x86: apic - unify smp_apic_timer_interrupt, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 08/18] x86: apic_xx.c order variables, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 09/18] x86: use HAVE_X2APIC in apic_64.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 10/18] x86: add hard_smp_prossor_id with MACRO in i ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 11/18] x86: make apic_32/64.c more like, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 12/18] x86: merge APIC_init_uniprocessor, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 13/18] x86: copy detect_init_APIC to the other, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 14/18] x86: merge header files in apic_xx.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 15/18] x86: apic unify smp_spurious/error_interrupt, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 16/18] x86: apic copy calibrate_APIC_clock to each ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 17/18] x86: apic copy apic_64.c to apic_32.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

[PATCH 18/18] x86: rename apic_32.c and apic_64.c to apic.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 2:01 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/18] merge apic_32.c and apic_64.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Aug 24, 2:14 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/18] merge apic_32.c and apic_64.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Aug 24, 5:16 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Jochen Voß, (Mon Aug 25, 5:22 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Marcin Slusarz, (Mon Aug 25, 1:53 pm)

Re: An idea .... with code, Bill Davidsen, (Mon Aug 25, 7:47 pm)

Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Tue Aug 26, 1:24 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Alexey Dobriyan, (Tue Aug 26, 3:44 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Tue Aug 26, 4:08 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Wed Aug 27, 12:24 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 12:47 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, David Newall, (Wed Aug 27, 2:57 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 3:01 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Wed Aug 27, 5:38 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 5:47 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Kasper Sandberg, (Wed Aug 27, 7:49 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 8:02 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Wed Aug 27, 6:24 pm)

Re: An idea .... with code, Kasper Sandberg, (Thu Aug 28, 2:41 am)

Re: An idea .... with code, Bill Davidsen, (Fri Aug 29, 7:57 pm)

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