[parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks

[Jim Meyering]

Stephen Powell wrote:
> Praise the Lord!  I do believe I've got it now.  Parted now supports all
> DASD types (CKD and FBA), drivers (ECKD, FBA, and DIAG) and disk formats

Nice.
Sounds promising.

> (CDL, LDL, and CMS) that are supported by the Linux kernel on the s390
...
> I intend to put the changed code through some fairly extensive
> final tests next week, and after that I will upload a unified diff
> with all my changes.  It will, however, have my original changes

Considering the number of different formats involved,
I'd guess that your changes include several bug fixes.

If you can find a way to make this into a series of patches,
I would be most grateful.  Teasing one big unified diff into
a series of largely-independent patches can be tedious,
but when done properly, it makes reviewing and maintenance
(e.g., future bisection) a lot easier.

> published via the context diffs as a prerequisite.  Sorry.  I'm
> a novice at this.  In fact, my only qualifications for making these
> changes seems to be that (a) I need the new functionality, and
> (b) I have the necessary hardware with which to test.  Programming
> skills, Linux knowledge, C knowledge, knowledge of "how things are
> done procedurally", etc. are probably all sub-par.  I ask for your
> patience and forbearance as I slowly and painfully learn all that
> stuff.

Also, please include as much as you can in the way of test recipes.
I.e., for each bug, what commands did you run to trigger it,
and what were the symptoms before it was fixed.

Thanks!