* H. Peter Anvin (hpa@xxxxxxxxxx) 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?