Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] partitions/msdos: FreeBSD UFS2 file systems are not recognized

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 03:48 -0700, Richard Narron wrote:
> The code in block/partitions/msdos.c recognizes FreeBSD, OpenBSD
> and NetBSD partitions and does a reasonable job picking out OpenBSD
> and NetBSD UFS subpartitions.
> 
> But for FreeBSD the subpartitions are always "bad".
> 
>      Kernel: <bsd:bad subpartition - ignored
[]
>   block/partitions/msdos.c | 2 ++
[]
> @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ static void parse_bsd(struct parsed_part
>   			continue;
>   		bsd_start = le32_to_cpu(p->p_offset);
>   		bsd_size = le32_to_cpu(p->p_size);
> +		if (memcmp(flavour, "bsd\0", 4) == 0)

Weird code.  Why not:

		if (strcmp(flavor, "bsd") == 0)