From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hd_geometry question.
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:37:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020703093758.GA22119@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFC6BCF5FE.976DF5FA-ONC1256BEB.002C62D4@de.ibm.com>
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:13:19AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> The problem now is that if geo.start is REQUIRED to be measured in
> 512 byte blocks we have to incompatibly change the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl.
> Not nice.
Yes, unfortunate. But the change will break very little, if anything.
Leave things as they are in 2.4, and change in 2.5.
Many years from now, when people upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6,
this will be one of the minor differences.
And maybe HDIO_GETGEO will be removed entirely.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-03 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-03 8:13 Martin Schwidefsky
2002-07-03 9:37 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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2002-07-02 9:16 Martin Schwidefsky
2002-07-02 10:50 ` jw schultz
2002-07-03 0:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-07-03 23:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-04 9:09 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-07-04 22:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-07-08 18:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-01 16:02 Martin Schwidefsky
2002-07-01 19:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-07-01 19:58 ` Andries Brouwer
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