Re: kern/53217: -current: dumping to wedges on GPT disks broken

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Apr 27,  2:45pm, kardel%netbsd.org@localhost (Frank Kardel) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/53217: -current: dumping to wedges on GPT disks broken

|  That would be the dump functions in the disk drivers, but that have the 
|  same problem as parent devices, they would still be looking at "whole 
|  disk" in the GPT case. In the GPT case only dkwedge/dk.c knows about the 
|  swap type. In the BSD label case the check would make sense.
|  The check would only be valid for non whole disk partitions in the disk 
|  drivers or even in this place or am I missing something?

I think that we should either fix the wedge code to create a better
fictitious disklabel or get rid of the label code and have it just
be there for compatibility (replacing dk_label with something that
works in all cases).

christos