On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 18:35 +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:01:23PM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 17:50 +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:48:09AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > > > Based on the TODO file, I have integrated mac and sun pt support to > > > > partx. > > > > > > Unfortunately, this TODO entry is not up to date -- (as I said > > > in an reply to your email two days ago) the ideal solution is to > > > use libblkid in partx. > > > > I think that this file should *really* be up to date! :( > > Yes, I know. Sorry. > > Note that I'm on freenode.net (for example at #udev) IRC -- you (or > anyone) can ping me before you start to work on something large. > > I have no time to rewrite partx right now (I'm working on libmount). > So I can apply your patches with mac and sun support for the next > release, but it's temporary solution. The final solution is to use > only one partitions parser in util-linux-ng -- libblkid. Ok, go ahead and apply it, and I will take a look at rewriting partx with libblkid. > > > > The last thing that is missing in the library is support for dasd. > > Is this before or after this patch? dasd should be very similar to > > mac/sun support. > > The dasd code has to be added to libblkid shlibs/blkid/src/partitions/, > but it's nothing urgent because nobody sane use this horrible thing > (except IBM mainfraims;-). Couldn't agree more. - Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
