[parted-devel] 1.8.7 in the works

[Otavio Salvador]

"Matthew S. Harris" <mharris312 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/23/07, David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Aside from those patches, I have the s390 stuff and 2048 write patches
>> to review before inclusion.  That's all I have on the table for 1.8.7.
>>
>> Reply on this thread for the things you want in the release.
>
> In the "Trying to read ZFS-labelled disks with Parted thread", I sent
> a patch that I believe fixes some endianness bugs and also gets Parted
> closer to being able to read EFI disk labels generated by OpenSolaris.
> I haven't received any feedback on the patch, but I would like to see
> at least the endianness fixes included in the stable release, if
> they're correct.
>
> The other fixes would be nice to have (since I believe they're
> correct) but aren't urgent because they're not sufficient for reading
> Sun's EFI disk labels.  (I do have a local patch that does seem to be
> sufficient, but I don't yet understand why it works.)

Can you then prepare an endianess fixing patch? Then we can apply just
it while you don't finish the whole patch.

Use git-format-patch to export it and then we can apply it easily.

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