As promised in my original post, I have written a little utility program to zap the disk labels of minidisks corrupted by this bug. Running it against all affected disks will allow existing data to be accessed safely by both types of Linux kernels: those that have the bug and those that have the fix applied. The utility can be found here:
http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/kernel/ZAPLABEL.ASM This is s390 assembler language source code for the utility. The comments explain how to assemble and use it. It is designed to be assembled and used under CMS. Now, how do you want to work this? Do you (the Debian Kernel Team) want to function as an intermediary between me and upstream? Or would you prefer that I report the problem to upstream myself? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
