From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/ide/hd?/settings obsolete in 2.6.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 18:58:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115315925.19842.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050505163316.GB17861@animx.eu.org>
On Iau, 2005-05-05 at 17:33, Wakko Warner wrote:
> Now, i have programs that I can't tell it the geometry (which it does use
> and requires to be correct. My guesses using edd are correct). I was using
> /proc/ide/hdX/settings to tell the kernel what geometry I want so the
> programs that can only ask the kernel can get it right.
And the geometry ioctls are obsolete for the applications too.
> If the "right" way is via IOCTL, my scripts are written in perl that do the
> bulk of the guess work.
I suspect it is for other programs that are still using that geometry
data and
really mkdosfs is what needs fixing ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-05 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-05 0:48 Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 10:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-05-05 11:13 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 12:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-05-05 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 15:38 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 16:21 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 16:33 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 17:58 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-05-05 20:53 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 15:33 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 15:53 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-05-05 16:20 ` Wakko Warner
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