Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr
To: None <dsl@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/08/2008 13:40:22
David Laight <dsl@netbsd.org> writes:
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr: mbr.S
>
> Log Message:
> The test for the 0xaa55 at the end of an extended partition pbr has always
> been incorrect (and checked the end of the mbr - which always suceeds).
> Rather than fixing the text, just delete it (saving 8 bytes from mbr_ext).

I don't understand -- why is fixing the test not a good idea? (There
is no desperate need for eight more bytes in the code at the moment.)

Perry