Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756270AbYCYN4l (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754586AbYCYN4b (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54206 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754001AbYCYN4a (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:30 -0400 Message-ID: <47E90458.7030801@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:55:36 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Greg KH , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , IDE/ATA development list , linux-scsi Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? References: <47E875AD.1000901@rtr.ca> <47E87942.2020409@rtr.ca> <47E88A13.70808@zytor.com> <47E90019.3050006@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <47E90019.3050006@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 27 Mark Lord wrote: > > Yeah, that would be just as good, really. Maybe even better. > > Mark Lord wrote (later on): >> Instead, software has to search everything inside /sys/block/ >> looking for a "dev" file whose contents match, >> rather than just trying to access something like this: >> >> /sys/block/8:1/start >> or >> /sys/block/majors/8/minors/1/start >> >> Or any one of a number of similar ways to arrange it. > .. > It shouldn't be under /sys/block... there are enough many things that scan /sys/block and assume any directory underneath it has the current format. -hpa -- 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/