Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:11:11 +0100 | From | "Seewer Philippe" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 10:01 +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote: > >>This would mean dropping the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl completely and force >>applications such as fdisk/sfdisk and even dosemu to determine disk >>geometry for themselves. Which I think actually would be the most >>correct approach. > > > In the IDE case the drive geometry has meaning in certain cases, > specifically the C/H/S drive addressing case with old old drives. > > Yes. But the addressing is abstracted by the kernel and we where talking about dropping the getgeo ioctrl. Not geometry itself. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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