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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
- [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Andres Salomon, 2005/11/16
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Andres Salomon, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Andres Salomon, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Harley D. Eades III, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Otavio Salvador, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux,
Harley D. Eades III <=
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Andres Salomon, 2005/11/17
- Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2005/11/17