Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932092AbWBOOQ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:16:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932102AbWBOOQ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:16:27 -0500 Received: from mr1.bfh.ch ([147.87.250.50]:10193 "EHLO mr1.bfh.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932092AbWBOOQ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:16:27 -0500 thread-index: AcYyOa0uD3FTdDYKRfa7GCaGhi4Efw== X-PMWin-Version: 2.5.0e, Antispam-Engine: 2.2.0.0, Antivirus-Engine: 2.32.10 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.1830 Message-ID: <43F3367F.8020807@bfh.ch> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:11:11 +0100 From: "Seewer Philippe" Organization: BFH User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050811) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alan Cox" Cc: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" , "Phillip Susi" , Subject: Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs References: <43EC8FBA.1080307@bfh.ch> <43F0B484.3060603@cfl.rr.com> <43F0D7AD.8050909@bfh.ch> <43F0DF32.8060709@cfl.rr.com> <43F206E7.70601@bfh.ch> <43F21F21.1010509@cfl.rr.com> <43F2E8BA.90001@bfh.ch> <58cb370e0602150051w2f276banb7662394bef2c369@mail.gmail.com> <43F2EE04.9060500@bfh.ch> <1140012392.14831.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1140012392.14831.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Feb 2006 14:11:12.0405 (UTC) FILETIME=[AD068C50:01C63239] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 22 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/