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Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux


From: Harley D. Eades III
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:25:41 -0600

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:12 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> "Harley D. Eades III" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> So the question is, if /sys/firmware/edd doesn't exist, do we attempt to
> >> `modprobe edd` from within libparted?  Or is that something that
> >> libparted should not be doing?
> > I don't think libparted should be using modprobe to check/init a module.
> > We could make edd a prereq for libparted or we could find another way
> > which doesn't involve the use of a linux kernel module.
> 
> I'm not sure of this could help but I prefer to send it anyway.
> 
> In grub, Fedora folks did a patch to include geometry calc there. Do a
> look in:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub/trunk/debian/patches/geometry-26kernel.diff?op=file&rev=0&sc=0http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub/trunk/debian/patches/geometry-26kernel.diff?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
It looks like they added all the necessary "things" to grub instead of
relying on the kernel to get the geom.  Or am I reading this wrong?

Cheers
Harley




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