Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756725AbYC0FAe (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:00:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751490AbYC0FAV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:00:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35812 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751361AbYC0FAU (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:00:20 -0400 Message-ID: <47EB2953.4070301@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:57:55 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Randy Dunlap , Mark Lord , 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: <20080327035257.GB9566@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20080327035257.GB9566@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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: 655 Lines: 17 Greg KH wrote: >> So e.g. lilo should depend on sysfs and *a*special*configuration* of udev, >> while the admin MUST NOT use mknod'ed device files nor manually create >> symlinks pointing to them, and not use relative path names? >> That's plain stupid. > > If sysfs is stupid, then use an ioctl, have I objected to that? I think he's objecting to the dependency on udev configuration, not to sysfs. -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/