[PATCH] common: filetype: do not redetect MBR-type devices as a FAT-type

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Nov 10 23:35:22 PST 2015


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:32:51PM +0300, Peter Mamonov wrote:
> Deleted pieces of code detect MBR-containig device as a FAT-type device,
> if it's first partition contains a FAT filesystem. This behaviour enabled one
> to mount the FAT FS which is either directly on the device (disk0) or on
> the first partition (disk0.0) using the same command:
>     mount /dev/disk0 /fat
> However, the desired behaviour can be reached with a:
>     mount /dev/disk0 /fat || mount /dev/disk0.0 /fat || echo "Mounting failed"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov at gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>

Please don't add Acked-by for patches the person has never seen. I
agreed to the approach of removing the check here, but I can only ever
ack a patch that I have seen.

Applied this with my ack removed.

Sascha


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