From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: mike.miller@hp.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cciss update for 2.6
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:15:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040326071556.A2637@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325224641.GE4456@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>; from mike.miller@hp.com on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:46:41PM -0600
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:46:41PM -0600, mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
> Please consider this patch for inclusion in the 2.6 kernel.
>
> If no device is attached we now return -ENXIO instead of some bogus numbers.
> Prevents applications from trying to access non-existent disks.
> Also adds HDIO_GETGEO_BIG IOCTL that fdisk uses.
HDIO_GETGEO_BIG was only used by some horribly patched vendor fdisks.
It's not declared in the kernel, and thus no driver should implement it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 22:46 mike.miller
2004-03-26 3:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-26 7:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-03-26 14:08 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
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